{"id":1153,"date":"2012-09-06T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2012-09-06T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:58:06","slug":"did-somepony-say-lightsaber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Did Somepony say &#8220;Lightsaber&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, too much <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?s=&#038;tag=wayback\" target=\"_blank\">wayback<\/a> lately. Sorry about that. I&#8217;m not nostalgic, just old.<\/p>\n<p>So a fellow <a href=\" http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=199\" target=\"_blank\">dc501<\/a> member said my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?s=&#038;tag=machine-shop\" target=\"_blank\">lathe<\/a> would be a cool way to make a lightsaber handle. Yes, yes it would. That part is easy, turning a chunk of aluminum to look like something cool. I do that all the time.<\/p>\n<p>But what about lightsaber light? That got me painting with light a little bit. This green laser is about 50mW, that means &#8220;do not look in to laser with remaining good eye&#8221;. Be safe if you get your hands on these things.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing here is a new trick. I&#8217;ve always liked playing and painting with light. Maybe these cools pics will inspire some ideas and projects.<\/p>\n<p>First experiment, green laser into a chunk of polycarb:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GreenLightsaberExp.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Laser speckle:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/GreenSpeckle.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that one of those rocks from &#8220;Land of the Lost&#8221;?<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LandofLost.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is it?&#8221;  &#8220;It&#8217;s green.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/LottaGreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another magic rock:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RedRock.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Phun with lasers:<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/RedStreak.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, too much wayback lately. Sorry about that. I&#8217;m not nostalgic, just old. So a fellow dc501 member said my lathe would be a cool way to make a lightsaber handle. Yes, yes it would. That part is easy, turning a chunk of aluminum to look like something cool. I do that all the time. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}