If you are looking for a new project that could be worked into part of a Halloween costume have a look at this Luxeon RGB LED Light Saber that George Hadley from Nbitwonder put together. The PIC18F2221 based Light Saber is open source and has gone through lots of variations, you can see some of the project build details here. There is lots of custom features that are built into the device but since it is open you could simply download the code and make any modifications you would like to add if there is some feature you would like to have. You can see the first of many build videos below, be cautioned that the high speed camera movements might make you a bit sea sick. 🙂 If you are still wanting to see more sabers on action take a look at the laser saber and the dual light saber that we featured here in the past.
Thanks George
“The RGBSaber project is an open source RGB Luxeon LED driver. The driver allows for PWM modulation of an RGB luxeon LED, allowing the color of the lightsaber blade to be adjusted to nearly any color in the RGB color spectrum. The current version of the lightsaber firmware supports 24-bit color, allowing for 16,777,216 different color combinations. The RGBSaber project, and all other NBitWonder projects, are made available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license.”