A lightsaber is an iconic weapon that has captured the hearts and minds of fans worldwide. Comprised of a blade composed of pure plasma (not light! Despite its name) emitted from its hilt and suspended in a force containment field, this unique sword has won hearts worldwide.

In the Star Wars universe, each owner selects their blade when building their lightsaber during training. A lightsaber’s hilt contains many complex components, including kyber crystal and multiple power sources for optimal functioning. Check out the lightsaber community Australia.

Kyber Crystal

The Kyber Crystal serves to focus and amplify energy in a lightsaber, impacting its stability and colour while forging an intimate connection between its owner and the Force, as evidenced in The Force Awakens when Rey paused her battle with Kylo Ren to focus on vibrations from her lightsaber before closing her eyes and focussing her mind on its vibrations.

The green Kyber crystal was chosen because it symbolises growth and renewal, representing Jedi Knights’ devotion to the light side of the Force. By contrast, the Sith cannot form this connection and instead uses bleeding to bend crystals into submission – channelling hatred into weaponised weapons, which ultimately causes red stains on its surface.

Kyber crystals come in both natural and synthetic varieties for use in lightsabers. Synthetic versions tend to be more commonly found, featuring similar basic structures with some key differences; less stable crystals tend to burn faster due to less-than-ideal durability characteristics.

Power Cell

Power Cell is a board that contains an efficient battery charger and can be configured to deliver either 3.3V or 5V power for permanent powering of Arduino-type projects or similar endeavours. Check out the lightsaber community Australia.

To use a Power Cell, the player must first craft it in the Fabricator. This device uses lithium-cobalt oxide cathodes and titanium dioxide anodes that generate electricity by mechanical force, creating electricity when mechanically compressed.

Cycling Field Energizers

If the lightsaber were as effective in combat as depicted, a powerful magnetic field would be needed to contain its hot plasma jets. Unfortunately, magnetic weapons like this present serious risks when in contact with other magnetic objects, including lightsaber blades or vehicles nearby.

Energy from the power cell passes through a Power Field Conductor and Power Vortex Ring before reaching an Energy Gate located directly beneath the main focusing crystal in the hilt. Here, available energy is converted into arc wave energy, projected via emitter assembly within the hilt.

Activation Switch

Activation Switch is an intuitive switch designed for easy use with an integrated 10 amp microswitch and positive feel red actuator for smooth release. Plus, it comes equipped with almost two feet of wire, making installation easier!

Utilising a servo, this device employs a robotic finger that gradually presses down on a switch until it detects that it has closed, lighting an LED, waiting 100 milliseconds before releasing progressively it back up until it detects that it has opened again and finally writing the measured activation and deactivation positions to the PC over a USB serial connection.

The Big Red Switch features a large 5-in/12.7 cm activation surface, which activates with 5.5 oz/156 g of force, offering tactile and auditory feedback to its user. It has interchangeable red, blue, yellow and green tops and a snap-on clear symbol holder. Pocket the Penguin Switch appeals more directly to younger users, providing visual and tactile feedback, soft hand exercises, and contracture treatment. Check out the lightsaber community Australia.

Emitter

The emitter follower allows you to monitor the voltage on an emitter as it passes through its positive half cycle, helping ensure it will fire in tandem with its source and never miss an event due to delays caused by output current passing through its positive half cycle.

Event listeners are added to an internal array by calling addListener() on an event, returning a variety of listeners, including wrappers (such as those added by. once() ). This method returns this array so subsequent calls may be chained.

EventEmitters typically warn if more than ten listeners register for an event. This function can change this threshold per EventEmitter instance or set it to zero to allow unlimited subscribers.

Note that calling removeListener() to unregister listeners alters their array position indices and will result in changes to which listeners are called; this practice should be avoided for production code due to potential unexpected behaviour.