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Post by edgejedi on Jul 11, 2008 4:35:53 GMT -5
Hes quite a creative guy, but like us all - gets inspiration from all over for what he does. We've already turned him to the Lightside (of costuming) though I should say...
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Post by Solinbeb Newau on Jul 14, 2008 7:20:09 GMT -5
I've had to put my holocron off as other projects (and buying a house) came up. Though, I'll have access to some more tools I needed this weekend, so at least I'll be able to cut the hubs for the sides. Ehhh...dremel tools aren't too good for cutting plastic...at least not this stuff. I was more liquefying it than cutting it. Bandsaws however, those worked well. Starting piece My attempt at cutting pre-power tools Dremel attempt Bandsaw
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Post by JediKai on Jul 14, 2008 21:49:04 GMT -5
Ouch, Ouch. Oh, that one's good.
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Post by machinedfx on Aug 16, 2008 1:31:48 GMT -5
Here is a simple Ancient Jedi Holocron i make with Baseball Display cases. It has a Simulated candle light in it that flickers.
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Post by JediKai on Aug 17, 2008 17:49:53 GMT -5
Excellent. Well done. Good idea using the battery candle. I'd not thought of that. It's brilliant!
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Post by Ky-Wan Zann on Sept 4, 2008 0:12:33 GMT -5
That looks outstanding. Now mine has been a long time coming but I finally finished it, the last two are from a shot set where I changed the leds inside of the holocron. I can change the colors to green, purple, red, greenish blue, blue or it will do a sway pattern so it looks as if the figure is lit up but the holocron itself looks like it's processing data because the colors change I'm pretty happy with it
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Sept 4, 2008 12:31:53 GMT -5
That's real good work Ky Wann. Does it use watch batteries?
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Post by JediKai on Sept 6, 2008 2:11:23 GMT -5
That's fantastic! What is the light source? LED's, but how placed?
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Post by Ky-Wan Zann on Sept 7, 2008 3:43:22 GMT -5
Y aknow I worked on this for so long and when it came time to try to light it I thought of every way to do it under the twin suns, Int he end it wa s afellow Jedi friend of mine that discovered the method for lighting it with small mods. and rather cheaply too
We have typical liquor stores here, some of these stores sell plastic ice cubes that have leds in them that light up for 5 dollars or so CDN. These can have the colors adjusted, dark blue, red, green, purple, green blue or simply pashe into all the colors making it seem as if the Holocron is thinking.
I pulled the ice cubes apart and pulled out the jelly substance that is inside them. Then attached the containers as it help spread the light around as oposed to simply 'up' . I have 4 cubes inside it though in the pics only two are on. I stack one on the other in a tower and one lights up the figure and the other can either stay the same color or as I perfer it, the phase sequence there fore making the figure light up and the holocron look as if it's thinking.
Easy source to find and mod and use. The on off switch is a tiny push button switch on the bottom
and thank you very much for the compliments
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Sept 7, 2008 14:50:30 GMT -5
Ahhh, now that's a great idea. GLowing ice cubes. Thanks.
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Post by Kryy Jacobi on Sept 7, 2008 15:46:26 GMT -5
That looks really great! And the lighting is a very creative idea. The neat thing is that all of these produce different-looking holocrons, just as if they were "real". No clones (pun intended). It would be fun to have a bunch of these at a Con table, but I'm afraid they'd get stolen.
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Post by Jauhzmynn Enz on Sept 7, 2008 20:12:56 GMT -5
Well I had my saber sitting on the table, but kept it in front of me. Anyone who wanted to see it usually asked first. If the holocrons are done like that you shouldn't have to many growing legs. No comlinks or holo projectors took wing either.
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Post by Ky-Wan Zann on Sept 8, 2008 23:38:23 GMT -5
Ia gree I'm planning on putting it on the table we do here as long as it can be watched or in a case, it's nice to see one general cube and all these diferent versions of them
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Post by crix on Jan 22, 2010 16:46:37 GMT -5
HI guys...I wanted to try doing the Holocrons.. so I used your ideas..I think they came out pretty good.. I found 4 of the starburst lights on Amazon, for a little over 20 bucks... I took one of the "printed circuit board" and blew it up a little...changed the color some..
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Post by Jedimom/Cor-Al Gelkar on Jan 22, 2010 19:32:24 GMT -5
Wow! Those look neat! I'll have to try one myself someday.
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