lightsaber technology

Smooth Swing Lightsaber: Realistic Motion Sensitivity Technology Explained

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Smooth Swing lightsaber

Smooth swing lightsaber, sometimes written as SmoothSwing lightsaber, refers to a lightsaber with extremely responsive, nuanced, realistic motion sensitivity influencing the lightsaber’s sounds. Originally developed by Thexter, a smooth swing lightsaber is much more sensitive to subtler lightsaber movements than a non-smooth swing lightsaber. Custom sabers configured as neopixel lightsabers and as in-hilt LED sabers … Read more

Lightsaber OLED Screen Explained | Lightsaber Terminology

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OLED is a type of display technology incorporated into the design of some custom lightsabers. OLED is short for organic-light emitting diode. An OLED screen serves a dual-purpose, operating as a small functional display and as a decorative accent piece.

Jaymoo’s Playground: Custom Savi’s Compatible Blades and Kyber Crystals | Lightsaber Company Spotlight

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Jaymoo’s Playground is a United States based custom saber company that specializes in handcrafted Savi’s Workshop compatible accessories. The company makes a Savi’s Workshop compatible blade, blade plug adapter, and a selection of custom kyber crystals, including rare colors like black, orange and teal. DISCLAIMER: Jaymoo’s Playground sent SaberSourcing a custom blade on loan and … Read more

Top 5 Problems with Neopixel Lightsabers

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Neopixel lightsabers continue to increase in popularity in the custom saber community. The lightsabers feature brightly illuminated blades and boast some of the most technologically advanced and customizable lightsaber blade effects, ranging from tip drag and saber scroll to specialized visual effects concentrated in specific segments of the blade. Despite the popularity and advanced functionality … Read more

What is an electrolumiscent (EL) blade? | Lightsaber Terminology

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Electroluminescent (EL) lightsaber blade

An electroluminescent blade, often called EL blade for short, is a lightsaber blade type utilizing an electroluminescent (EL) sheet or wire that runs the length of the blade. The EL sheet or wire is housed in a diffuser tube inside a polycarbonate blade tube. The EL sheet or wire illuminates the lightsaber blade. An EL … Read more

Sabertrio Neopixel Blade Plug Adapter | New Saber Technology

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Sabertrio Neo Chip

Sabertrio, a Malaysia based custom saber company, announced the development of Neo Chip, a neopixel blade plug adapter. How the adapter works is Neo Chip attaches to most standard thick walled blade plugs (3.2 mm thick), allowing lightsaber enthusiasts to adapt the static blade plugs into neopixel blade plugs (thin walled, 1.6mm thick blade plugs would require … Read more

Spectra V2 Blade Controller Adds Visual Effects to ‘Boring’ Stunt Saber

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Spectra V2 lightsaber

Some lightsabers enthusiasts dislike stunt sabers is they are too ‘boring’. Aside from stunt sabers not using sound, most stunt sabers don’t feature any visual effects either. Installing a Spectra V2 can add some exciting visual effects to an otherwise ‘boring’ stunt saber. JQ Sabers, a custom saber company based in the United Kingdom, sells … Read more

Electrum Sabercrafts Teases Diatium 3 Saber Core Board as ‘Louder, Bassier and Meaner’ (New Saber Technology)

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Electrum Sabercrafts Diatium 3 SaberCore

Electrum Sabercrafts announced they will be releasing a new board, Diatium 3 Saber Core (D3), in 2019. The custom saber company started teasing some of the sounds on Diatium 3 Saber Core yesterday on the Electrum Sabercrafts Facebook page. Sounds in the video included: idle hum, swing sounds, and the turn off sound. In the … Read more

2018 Is The Year of the Neopixel Lightsaber

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The year 2018 is the year of the neopixel lightsaber. Neopixel is a somewhat new lightsaber technology that is becoming very popular very quickly among lightsaber enthusiasts. Neopixel lightsabers use removable blades that contain neopixel LED strips. Most other lightsabers either use in-hilt LEDs (i.e. the light source is contained within the hilt) or a … Read more