**SPOILERS** New RoS prop image **SPOILERS**

TerranCmdr, I dig that so freaking hard. That's some nice work. Even if it's hard to move and feels fragile, it's still really impressive. And so far not a lot of folks are showing their hands with respect to their own mechanisms it seems like. I'm still playing around with mine, but I'm going to backburner it and focus on my version with the blade.

And I'm glad you came to similar measurements. It's always nice to know that you're not off by yourself!
 
Had a spat of semi-decent weather, so I got the first coat of primer/filler on and sanded it down.

I've been chugging away at the electronics. The modified version of my CAD files to fit the microcontroller and speaker is done and it (juuuuuust barely) fits the wiring harness, so there's that. I'm tweaking the code so that before the blade turns on and goes yellow, it will do the super quick green/blue flash through the maul cone.
 

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Had a spat of semi-decent weather, so I got the first coat of primer/filler on and sanded it down.

I've been chugging away at the electronics. The modified version of my CAD files to fit the microcontroller and speaker is done and it (juuuuuust barely) fits the wiring harness, so there's that. I'm tweaking the code so that before the blade turns on and goes yellow, it will do the super quick green/blue flash through the maul cone.
hahah this is sssiiiccckkkk
 
Very slowly dialing this in. On my second rotate->pusher mech and am considering redesigning again. Not sure what others have done but I'm thinking geared "petals" with rotating threads might be my best bet now. The mech I currently have feels fragile and is difficult to move.

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Also IBuildRobots thanks for sharing measurements! I just measured mine and I've got 328mm so it sounds like we're both in the same ballpark! Mine was sized to my hand and eyeballed.


This looks great. Will you be releasing these files?
 
So...where is Luke’s ROTJ green lightsaber in all of this??

Does it not get buried on Tatooine with the other two?
I think this is possibly one of the biggest unanswered questions to date man!:lol: I was wondering if Rey or Ben would pick it up again. Kind of a bust in my honest opinion :confused:
 
I think this is possibly one of the biggest unanswered questions to date man!:lol: I was wondering if Rey or Ben would pick it up again. Kind of a bust in my honest opinion :confused:

i remember reading in some sort of addendum or something (not sure if canon or not) that Luke's green saber is being cared for by the indigenous Jedi temple caretakers where he was living and passed on to the force.
 
i remember reading in some sort of addendum or something (not sure if canon or not) that Luke's green saber is being cared for by the indigenous Jedi temple caretakers where he was living and passed on to the force.
I've heard this as well. I wish we had more info on the lore and culture of the caretakers. That way we could make a prop box, or vessel of some kind for everyone's Luke sabers in the supposed state it's in now! It'd be an interesting thing to start a build thread on! Would anyone be interested in that!? You could even throw in a copy of Obi-Wans Journal and Luke's compass!
 
I hoped Luke had stored it inside R2-D2 ROTJ style and as some point in EP9 R2 would launch it to Rey (or Leia) at a critical moment but....... that's just fan fiction now.
 
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