Building a "FLOATING" Star Wars lightsaber Display

[@Lorienhal]

A friend of mine passed away a couple years ago now and this video has inspired me to make a display box for his Halo Spartan II Helmet.

[@vidm96]

Nice video. Adafruit has a great article on their website about working with neopixels. It's, for example, recommended to add a resistor in series between the arduino and the data in on the LED ring to protect the first LEDs control chip.

[@VanOaksProps]

Great tip! I’ll have to check that out.

[@TroubleSturm]

Your hands and arms look very similar to mine. I have a radial club arm on my left, and am missing my left thumb. It's very nice to see people involved with this type of making who have similar bodies to mine. Thank you for your visibility!

[@VanOaksProps]

That’s exactly the same as me. It’s my pleasure!

[@FabWorks80]

Beautiful work, Derek!!! Love the floating saber idea.

[@Woakipa]

I appreciate KZbin for recommending your channel to me. Great video. Excited to see more!

[@VanOaksProps]

Welcome aboard!

[@aliabolhassani5820]

You are a truly gifted person sir! Your videos are so amazing, you are a genius!!

[@VanOaksProps]

So nice of you to say!

[@Shadoweclipse1386]

That looks LEGIT! Awesome display!!!!

[@CGRTist]

Love the way your display case turned out!

[@reprinted3D]

GREAT video! I might actually give this one a try!

[@mujone]

Incredible build brother. I would love to do the same but i have to do it for all 35 of my sabers. Lol. I'm too lazy keep up the great content.

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks 👍

[@mertz7305]

That is freaking GORGEOUS. Great idea man!

[@VanOaksProps]

Thank you!

[@Jeff_Halligan_EPIQUE_Sandpoint]

That is truly an amazing final product. well done

[@VanOaksProps]

Thank you very much!

[@qoolbru]

Now I inspiration for how to display my impulsive saber acquisition. :D Thanks for this build!

[@Waterratt4344]

Great video! I wish I thought of something like this for my Marco Enterprises Darth Vader saber, but I’m very happy with what I made.

[@pingpong8193]

Mind blowing. Awesome!

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks a lot 😊

[@horses2by]

Wow AMAZING 🤩

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks

[@DockingBay327Build]

This turned out absolutely amazing Derek!!! Incredible work my friend!!

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks a bunch!

[@joshuamostran]

Such a awesome project Derek. love your work.

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks a bunch!

[@SpaceWizardCosplay]

A beautiful saber deserves a beautiful home. Well-done.

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks so much!

[@ibidesign]

You, sir, are a genius.

[@VanOaksProps]

Thanks so much!

[@ironmanshredder3699]

Good evening, getting ready to buy a glow forge pro. Seeing a lot of mixed reviews has made me somewhat nervous. I know you use, however do you feel as this is a good buy or would you have another suggestion

[@VanOaksProps]

I've had an extremely positive experience with my Glowforge and use it a lot more than I expected to. Are there others in the market, sure. Have they been around as long and have as big of a community of users? Probably not. So there's more than just the machine that you're buying into that should be considered.

[@ironmanshredder3699]

Ok thank you, very appreciative for your feedback

[@statesrights01]

Now, just hang this up in an office with a sign on it saying.. "Break glass incase of emergency" .. And, seeing how you did this, make a hologram using this same technique. :D. As always, love your builds!!

[@VanOaksProps]

Ha!

[@idiotluggage]

Your work is amazing. Thanks for sharing this.

[@VanOaksProps]

Thank you very much!

[@m.maclellan7147]

SO EPIC ! Thanks for showing the way you did the arduino & lights ! It looks easy enough I would be tempted to do it myself ! 😅 Top marks for the display !

[@VanOaksProps]

You should!

[@603VIL]

Looks amazing as always sir! Would love to see you make a 3D printed lightsaber and then add electronics. I don't think I've seen a really good KZbin tutorial thus far showing something like what you provide, that's easy to follow. As always, thank you 🤘 💀

[@VanOaksProps]

Cool idea!

[@postudios8485]

This is awesome! you ever think to update the acrylic to tubes instead so its more transparent?

[@VanOaksProps]

I hadn't considered it, but I think that would work.

[@dagnon99]

excellent!

[@StevenLangeUncut]

Did I just miss it in the video where you got the clear acrylic tube?? Great video though!

[@VanOaksProps]

I picked it up on Amazon. Links for everything are in the video description if you wanted more info on it.

[@carrotman]

Am I imagining or wasn't this a video you did a while back? It's an excellent project but I'm getting some serious déjà vu. 😳

[@VanOaksProps]

I’ve done a lightsaber stand in the past. You’re not going crazy. Haha

[@RestNPizza]

You should look into WLED to control the leds via an esp8266 or esp32 board. Much more flexible and easier to set up. Also allows you to connect to the leds via wifi to change colors and effects.

[@reddogterrain]

Cool.

[@meyer4527]

Why not have dual rings

[@VanOaksProps]

I had thought about that but couldn't come up with a clean way to hide the wiring.

[@johntaylor2447]

Great job.

[@jasperjanderson]

Perfect decoration for a meditation chamber

[@VanOaksProps]

Yes indeed!

[@gunnarbiker]

Bro....the force is definitely with you! Great build!

[@VanOaksProps]

I appreciate that!

[@Expialidocious46545]

I would buy that.

[@blizatrex]

Looks great. I could see these zipping around in the background of the temple in futuristic vacuum tubes.

[@meyer4527]

Also instead of rainbow Id go for a stark blue with a flicker effect like there are electrical problems

[@VanOaksProps]

That would be cool too

[@markah910]

You're amazing... is there anything you don't know? Love the ideas

[@VanOaksProps]

For a kid who was not good in school, I found that I enjoy being a student as an adult. I'm a lot more willing to fail and try again than I was in my formative years.

[@markah910]

@VanOaksProps i too try to take as many classes through work as i can. The older i get, the more inquisitive i become. It's just retaining that info that is hard at times. Lol

[@navigatingthedestination]

Love this display case. If that was mine, I'd add a tiny smoke machine to it 🤷‍♂️

[@dustinvangorkum3948]

Taking orders?

[@VanOaksProps]

Not currently.

[@Mo-P]

Started looking like the Iron man Arc Reactor at first!

[@VanOaksProps]

I can see it

[@arturvitor9705]

If you make the supoort made out of glass and fill the tub with liquid glicerin it will be really looking like floating.