Hey all! A few weeks ago (during SWC Japan), I saw Sabers Forever post a video of an Inquisitor lightsaber that included some sort of mechanism to spin the ring and blades when activated. My friend and I have wanted to build one like this for a while - does anyone know what type of hilt would work for a spinning mechanism like this, and if we were to build one, what would be the best way to go about it?
So, if I was doing this…
I would install a proffie, battery (and motor?) in the spinning section.
Then i would find something wireless (bt, lo-ra, whatever) that can communicate between the handle section and the spinning section. The handle would have buttons, a small battery and a wireless chip. The other wireless chip would be in the spinning section and hooked up to the serial port on the proffieboard. Then I would need to figure out the programming to make all that work.
Unless there is an easy way to make electrical connections between the spinning part and the handle that I’m not aware of?
Couldn’t it just use spring loaded contacts to a contact strip like something used on stage turntables, or like a wiper inside a potentiometer?
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It’s absolutely possible, but is it easy? reliable? bulky?
I would expect that the lack of central fulcrum/axis would make it more difficult.
If using spring-loaded contacts, I would probably use SPDT switches, that way you can have positive checks even if the contacts aren’t 100% reliable. (One contact would be for “button pressed” and the other would be for “button not pressed”.) If neither is “on”, then nothing happens.
Alright, this seems like it will be more of a challenge than anticipated! We’ll keep looking around for hilts that have two sections to allow it to spin, for now.