Build a Lightsaber

Step 12 Basic with Basic Sound

For the budget minded, you can purchase a plastic lightsaber toy (with sound) at your local big store (wal****, Tar***, ToysR**, etc). gut it and use it to power the LED and provide sound.

Here is an example of the Hasbro toy electronics powering an Red/Blue/Green (RGB) LED.
The purple blade lightsaber is using the hasbro toy sound board in this video:



How did I get purple? Well, I put 4.8 volts through the soundboard and split the positive wire going into the LEDs - one wire to the Blue LED and the other wire into a resistor then to the Red LED (remember, Red needs less voltage than Blue, hense the resistor). Both LEDs use a common Negative wire. Green was not used. Blue+Red = Purple.

See Picture 2 on how to wire a Hasbro toy circuit board.

Comments

[Luziviech]

kinda ironic, that i cant watch the movie, cos it apparently contains content of Sony entertainment "imperialists".