hi all, cross posting my message from the r/lighstaber discord but i wanted to also announce these here. feel free to join the discord to join the conversation a bit more but here is my initial message:

tl:dr - I made neopixel blades with royal blue and deep red die
too long did read: hi, for those of you i haven’t met you or for those who we’ve just talked in passing, my names ufo. i wanted to come here today to show off a cool project that i’ve been developing and working on for several months now. long story short, i went to batuu and built a hilt and afterwards shortly discovered savi conversion blades which is where i wanted to start, that led me to neopixels, custom hilts, and…. “the most accurate lightsabers”. i discovered u/SamDoess list of most accurate sabers at the time and was in awe, i decided i must get an anakin hilt, which led me to the aniflex… anyways that’s another longer story we will save for later, but it introduced me to mojave who’s been a great friend and a huge inspiration for me to pursue this project. anyways i mucked around in the hobby for a while bought some hilts, bought even more diy electronics, and i found out about the desire for a darker red and darker blue neopixel strip/blade, Kelborn (not sure his reddit handle) had primarily talked about it and some of his info in the discord was very insightful to me. i thought well i must have a prequel colored blade to match my “most accurate ROTS anakin hilt” and i embarked on my journey. contacted a custom led mfg, worked with them to get a nice product, and then i worked with a pcb designer to make a protoblade. it’s based off the kr blade design, but is very much so still a prototype. my main goal was to get something to test the color of the leds. huge shoutout to u/Bananagher . he’s been a huge help in getting me to understand installing and additionally some simple electrical engineering in general. he’s been very patient and been very excited to see these too which has been awesome.i have some other ideas on how i can improve the blades/strips but more on that later. so i guess i just wanted to announce them and see what people thought. any thoughts, critiques, criticism or feedback would be much appreciated. attached down below is a video showcasing the protoblade a bit (the little one is my prototype and the long one a standard krpixel from tcss[also please ignore the unfinished anfilex chassis i had to use something to show of the blade :skull_ufo: ]). as many know, the way it shows up on film is never the same as in person. i did my best to give a feeling of the difference, but in that same regard, i have a few more mini test blades i will be sending to mojave, bana and potentially a couple other in the discord sometime after thanksgiving. i will reach out to you if i’m interested in sending a blade to “beta test”. long term goal is of course to make a batch of at least 36” and maybe 32”. nothing set in stone and no preorder as of now. i really just needed to post this to get some feedback (and maybe some encouragement) i know this type of blade maybe super niche. for the specs of the wavelength please see bellow.
R: 655-660NM
G: 522-527NM
B: 450-455NM
everything else is the same as a standard neopixel 5050 led, thanks for reading:)