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"Lightsabers!!!"

After seeing Star Wars III, I decided to set out to research current technology and the possibility of construvting a real, working lightsaber!

I dont expect to complete it in the next few yearsm but its a fun project nonetheless.

Anyone know of any good websites, any current technology, or any ideas of your own about how this amazxingly cool thing could be acheived?

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> I thought the glow colour depended on the type of crystal thingy that
> makes the blade bit?

Yeah, but the blade part is ALWAYS white.
Watch any of the films. The blade is white, the glow is different.

For over £100, you get a lightsaber that doesn't look anything like a proper one...great.

I thought the glow colour depended on the type of crystal thingy that makes the blade bit?

those lightsaber replicas FFF linked to are crap. For a start, all lightsabers are white, it's only the glow that changes colour.

Also, [URL]http://img251.echo.cx/img251/2519/tealc0uc.jpg[/URL]

So you're saying that only people with mental illnesses think up ideas like lightsabers and what to help make them?

Well, I have been emmitting air from my nose recently...

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aww

I know there's no technology RIGHT NOW, or at least, none we can think of. At the moment I'm only at the starge of researching possible technologies and things like that. I plan to keep an eye on technology and things as it grows over the next few years and start panning how 2 put it together.

Normal? Define normal.

It should only take about 10 second for anyone (normal) to realise that you can't do it ... there is no technology avaliable right now to make a working lightsaber with.

Now now Nash, the guy's trying to create a weapon to attack people with.

You'd need some sort of filament for the colour. Or you could find a way of sticking a disco machine in there, so it'd be multicoloured. None of that purple rubbish please.

And you'd need a way of turning it on and off again. unless you want it burning up the table, and a strong heat resistant handle.