installing Arduino IDE and drivers isn't exactly "computer science hard." And there is no need to "reinvent the wheel" when programming the Proffieboard. A lot of the software has already been written out and shared throughout the community. It's just a matter of reaching out to the community and looking at what has already been done. Honestly, a lot of open source software coding by hobbyist is cut and paste as someone much smarter has already written the code and has shared it with the world.
THIS. Everyone said don't do it but I barely had to do anything. Google, copy, paste. Stuffing the wires in nicely inside the saber was much more difficult.
“Go hard or go home” is the mentality I had when I built my first saber 2 months ago. I went with a proffie neopixel build BUT I did a lot of research on the proffie before I built it. It’s not actually that complicated when you get into it.
So I have this Saberforge Xiphos stunt saber laying around and I decided that I did really miss the sound. I settled on the proffie board cause it is highly customizable and has smooth wing options. I bought a chassis, rechargeport, kill key, protected battery, various wires, shrink tubing and buttons. I had this laying around for almost 6months before finally trying to install this. In about an hour I had everything soldered up. In about another hour I had set it up. It worked flawless, first time!!! Although you need to be able to solder and it helps a lot if you have a bit programming experience , tutorials online will guide you through the process. After setting it up you can use fredericks style generator to basicly generate all the code you could ever need. In the end I decided to take it appart since I wanted to use another led as well as doing a better job at cable management. All in all my experience has been a lot better than expected. I would encourage people to do the research and give it a go. Also there are loads of facebook groups in which people that create awsome sabers for a living respond to your questions fairly quickly.
Don't be afraid of Proffie. I had no prior experience with coding and I was able to set up complex blade styles, color, and sound fonts in a couple of days.
Beginning of the vid: *aggressive innuendos towards Adam Driver, out of nowhere.* End of vid: "My Girlfriend is _Reylo_ Trash™, like straight trash" lol
Not to get off subject but this is my fifth video of yours that I have watched. I have actually paused it to write this. Your videos are very informative, very funny and on the current subject, entertaining and exciting. Definitely 10 out of 10 Wookiee’s.
This is a WARNING to people buying soundboards. I started building my first lightsaber about 9 months ago and there were no easy videos like this channel is making so good job I am subscribed. But having been into this for a few months I do not agree with this video regarding the Proffie. The comparison he used is simply not good. When I was choosing the soundboard some other video recommended the CFX as the best and I took their word for it. I have a CFX and it is pending install but I was too quick to buy that and did not really even look at the Proffie. This is by far the biggest mistake I have made so far. I hate that I made this mistake because the worst thing is I paid 3 TIMES as much for the CFX and am getting less features. The price difference between the Proffie and CFX is crazy. I hate this. The thing that bugs me A LOT also is when I was looking at sound fonts, Kyberphonics did a demo of a certain font that had an epic light up effect (I guess blade profile) and that was on Proffie but the same font on CFX is just sad in comparison. CFX does not have that blade profile. This sucks so much. This might sound like a small thing but for 3 times the price it is a huge deal for me. Also having done more research, the car comparison he made was very bad and I would say that Proffie is just slightly slightly slightly more complex than the CFX. This is nothing. If this is your first time like mine you have to lear a ton of stuff anyway and doing one extra step is so worth it. I do not plan to program stuff on my own there are FB groups and communities that already did all of the work for the Proffie. So it should not be any more difficult than the CFX he did not mention this and that is very important. So to conclude if I fry my CFX I will be getting a Proffie and I hate myself for not doing more research. The point of this comment is DO RESEARCH YOURSELF. I screwed up because I watched some other video where somebody recommended CFX as the best and now having done the research myself I know that for me this is not the case. Do not automatically trust this video. For the uploader, since you have the money and subscriber base I think you should try out the Proffie yourself and I think you will see that the comparison you made is simply not fair because if I was starting out now I would likely trust everything you say and later down the line would get screwed. I like the style and quality of your videos keep up the good work just simply be more careful when making such comparisons.
Proffie is becoming more and more powerful with each OS. There’s so much documentation that if you know zero about arduino, you can still build a lightsaber.
The fett263 website makes it stupid easy to make your own config. It’s a plus to know arduino so you can ID mistakes in code, but if you don’t know code, the website can carry you through the entire process.
Love the Apple references. I am an Apple user. So now I know I did make a good choice on the sound board I got. I got one you used the Apple reference about.
i bought an rgb baselit lightsaber that had a slot for a microSD. i had no clue what it was until i saw this video. i now know that its a verso soundboard. yay
What’s your opinion of golden harvest boards? I recently got a saber from Spectrum Sabers and that has a golden harvest but haven’t seen much about them aside from what exists on Sabertec
erv plecter deserves a lot of love. he does his runs for the boards on the side as a hobby. at the start of the custom sabers age like 10ish years ago he was the only person on earth that produced those boards with a lot less features :D hes probaly the main drive behind a lot of features we have now 🤩
Bro. You need to research the Sabertec Golden Harvest V3. Smoothswing, neopixel, accents, super easy to wire up, fantastic tech support, and almost half the price of CFX. The smoothswing algorithm is the same across the three boards, but the threshold settings on GHv3 are perfect right out of the box. No advanced coding or setup necessary.
Actually, Proffieboard already does all of what CFX does, and more. Not the potential, but already does. As for the "and more", someone's already programmed interaction between a saber and a blaster using IR blasters and sensors to trigger blaster blocks. In short, welcome the lightsaber in a game of laser tag.
I just updated my Verso board to the latest beta and now it holds multiple fonts, has lock up, blaster deflection, and accent swings! If you are thinking about soldering your first lightsaber I HIGHLY recommend Verso! Then go to the Verso support FB page and search for the latest beta and install that on your SD card and BOOM smooth swing neopixel saber with all the main cool effects like color change on the fly and blade style selection on the fly!
I still don't get why The Custom Saber Shop was not on the list of saber stores to know on your last video. The have all the parts needed to build a lightsaber - from the simplest to the most feature rich (I don't work for them, just a loyal customer).
@@RandomStuffGarage619 15 years for me. The IRL saber group I am in makes a quarterly group order from TCSS. Best source for lightsaber parts if you want to get your order arriving in about a week.
I had to build my first saber because the only two Sound modules on the market was Crystal Focus and a company called Ultrasound. I went with the cheaper one. That is what it was. My hilt was made from a sink tube and adapters to accept MHS parts from The Custom Saber Shop.
Hello thank you for the nice video! I have one very important question and I really hope you will see this. I have already ordered a soundboard to upgrade my cheap RGB lightsaber with 3 soundfonts to a lightsaber with Smooth Swing and better sound fonts. My plan was to switch the old soundboard with the new one. Now I realised that my lightsaber doesn't really have an extra soundboard. There is only one circuit board in the lightsaber which every calbe goes to and it also has the button and the charging port on it. What do I do now? Is this still possible? Thank you for your help! Sorry if my English is bad, I'm not a native speaker.
God i wish this video came out a month earlier. I didn’t look into it properly and i got a saber with a verso board and it’s not what i hoped it would be
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this, but if you have a RGB lightsaber with a LED blade, will that saber work with a custom soundboard even though it’s not neopixel ?
Came here specially to see what you thought of the GH v3 board, hope you cover it sometime because it's one of the top two I'm trying to decide between!
Have you tried replacing the soundboard that's inside of the Savi's Workshop lightsaber? Because I'd be extremely interested to see the process, the pros, the cons, everything in-between!
It has been almost 2 years, i can't find any of the boards you mentioned. Shops are closed or no stock. Anyone knows where i can buy some in Europe? q.q
Man i love you. I really want to build lightsaber and with this videos it's really possible I can make it. But I have one question, is there any free codes for proffie on the internet or tutorials?
Yes. I heard that the Golden Harvest is a "step in the right direction", but still using outdated technology and not up to par with the others on this list.
I saw that when you buy soundfonts off of places like saberfonts and kyberphonic they have a force sound you can add on to it im just wondering how can i add it since theres no force folder, just a blaster folder you can use the button for
Go Proffie or go home. Honestly though, I jumped into sabersmithing with Proffie. I barely knew any coding but Facebook groups like the Open Source Proffie group has many experienced members who are more than happy to help! One thing I love about Khal and KR is that he not only offers his own Verso, but will also sell Proffie and CFX AND he also sells a very cheap PCB so that people can practice their soldering skills
You really need to dip a toe into the Proffie side of things yourself and not take the word of others as truth. Learning Proffie is currently no harder than CFX. There is a pre-built library of blade animations that hands down make the CFX styles look like a Hasbro kids toy. If you want to see how easy it is to learn join the Proffie groups on Facebook.
also made a comment like this. I bought a CFX because I did not do research myself and paid 3 times more and don't have a feature I badly want. I was stupid and too trusting. Do your own research when choosing a board.
The best Star Wars channel out there is back.
Ever watched Star Wars theory
We are getting there Viper! Maybe we need more back lights? Ha ha Ha
Adam Driver doesn't need an Ezra cosplayer thirsting over him, he already has a creepy, hollow-boned Mr. Bean cosplayer to deal with :)
He does?? Lol... Mr. Bean?
John Oliver~
And my mom lol
@@arceus1997 the Pokemon God has a mom? Also you just your momed yourself! 🤣
@@FindingTheForce you're here?!
Me: Yeah I’ll build a lightsaber
Also Me: uhh I’ll settle with Disney legacy saber
I will one day build a lightsaber! still a entertaining video.
Hey I've been there too
Hahah Hey Decrypted! We are right there with you buddy. “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”
Bro I built a graflex from the custom saber shop with nano biscotti v4 sound board and a tri Cree led. It isn’t as bad as you think you can do it!!!!
I saw my notifications and I was like “Finally”
I was scared you weren’t gonna post a lightsaber video today. Thank the maker.
installing Arduino IDE and drivers isn't exactly "computer science hard." And there is no need to "reinvent the wheel" when programming the Proffieboard. A lot of the software has already been written out and shared throughout the community. It's just a matter of reaching out to the community and looking at what has already been done. Honestly, a lot of open source software coding by hobbyist is cut and paste as someone much smarter has already written the code and has shared it with the world.
Yeap, that's exactly how i got an A in my digital electronics class lol
THIS. Everyone said don't do it but I barely had to do anything. Google, copy, paste. Stuffing the wires in nicely inside the saber was much more difficult.
“Go hard or go home” is the mentality I had when I built my first saber 2 months ago. I went with a proffie neopixel build BUT I did a lot of research on the proffie before I built it. It’s not actually that complicated when you get into it.
So I have this Saberforge Xiphos stunt saber laying around and I decided that I did really miss the sound. I settled on the proffie board cause it is highly customizable and has smooth wing options.
I bought a chassis, rechargeport, kill key, protected battery, various wires, shrink tubing and buttons. I had this laying around for almost 6months before finally trying to install this.
In about an hour I had everything soldered up. In about another hour I had set it up. It worked flawless, first time!!!
Although you need to be able to solder and it helps a lot if you have a bit programming experience , tutorials online will guide you through the process. After setting it up you can use fredericks style generator to basicly generate all the code you could ever need.
In the end I decided to take it appart since I wanted to use another led as well as doing a better job at cable management.
All in all my experience has been a lot better than expected. I would encourage people to do the research and give it a go. Also there are loads of facebook groups in which people that create awsome sabers for a living respond to your questions fairly quickly.
I’m not weak-minded but if I wasn’t already subbed to this channel I would
Respect.
You have my respect, for explaining all of this really well, for someone who hasn't used any of this yet!
Excellent video, man!
Don't be afraid of Proffie. I had no prior experience with coding and I was able to set up complex blade styles, color, and sound fonts in a couple of days.
This guy making star wars s** flirts to kylo ren is the best thing I've seen today
Actually, in this quarantine, I might be driven to do the same.
Beginning of the vid: *aggressive innuendos towards Adam Driver, out of nowhere.*
End of vid: "My Girlfriend is _Reylo_ Trash™, like straight trash"
lol
A soundboard tier list would be cool
CFX Guy Here! 👋🏻 Plug & Play...All Day!!
aaah i see you watch Last Week Tonight
clearly you're a man of culture
Not to get off subject but this is my fifth video of yours that I have watched. I have actually paused it to write this. Your videos are very informative, very funny and on the current subject, entertaining and exciting. Definitely 10 out of 10 Wookiee’s.
Hello there.
General knobi
General kenobi
love the vid cant beleive i commented before you this serries has been very usfulll
This is a WARNING to people buying soundboards. I started building my first lightsaber about 9 months ago and there were no easy videos like this channel is making so good job I am subscribed. But having been into this for a few months I do not agree with this video regarding the Proffie. The comparison he used is simply not good. When I was choosing the soundboard some other video recommended the CFX as the best and I took their word for it. I have a CFX and it is pending install but I was too quick to buy that and did not really even look at the Proffie. This is by far the biggest mistake I have made so far. I hate that I made this mistake because the worst thing is I paid 3 TIMES as much for the CFX and am getting less features. The price difference between the Proffie and CFX is crazy. I hate this. The thing that bugs me A LOT also is when I was looking at sound fonts, Kyberphonics did a demo of a certain font that had an epic light up effect (I guess blade profile) and that was on Proffie but the same font on CFX is just sad in comparison. CFX does not have that blade profile. This sucks so much. This might sound like a small thing but for 3 times the price it is a huge deal for me. Also having done more research, the car comparison he made was very bad and I would say that Proffie is just slightly slightly slightly more complex than the CFX. This is nothing. If this is your first time like mine you have to lear a ton of stuff anyway and doing one extra step is so worth it. I do not plan to program stuff on my own there are FB groups and communities that already did all of the work for the Proffie. So it should not be any more difficult than the CFX he did not mention this and that is very important. So to conclude if I fry my CFX I will be getting a Proffie and I hate myself for not doing more research. The point of this comment is DO RESEARCH YOURSELF. I screwed up because I watched some other video where somebody recommended CFX as the best and now having done the research myself I know that for me this is not the case. Do not automatically trust this video. For the uploader, since you have the money and subscriber base I think you should try out the Proffie yourself and I think you will see that the comparison you made is simply not fair because if I was starting out now I would likely trust everything you say and later down the line would get screwed. I like the style and quality of your videos keep up the good work just simply be more careful when making such comparisons.
Proffie is becoming more and more powerful with each OS. There’s so much documentation that if you know zero about arduino, you can still build a lightsaber.
The fett263 website makes it stupid easy to make your own config. It’s a plus to know arduino so you can ID mistakes in code, but if you don’t know code, the website can carry you through the entire process.
Love the Apple references. I am an Apple user. So now I know I did make a good choice on the sound board I got. I got one you used the Apple reference about.
i bought an rgb baselit lightsaber that had a slot for a microSD. i had no clue what it was until i saw this video. i now know that its a verso soundboard. yay
What’s your opinion of golden harvest boards? I recently got a saber from Spectrum Sabers and that has a golden harvest but haven’t seen much about them aside from what exists on Sabertec
erv plecter deserves a lot of love. he does his runs for the boards on the side as a hobby. at the start of the custom sabers age like 10ish years ago he was the only person on earth that produced those boards with a lot less features :D hes probaly the main drive behind a lot of features we have now 🤩
Still waiting for you to cover hacksmith's protosaber
The Verso board from KR sabers is my absolute favorite. It supports neopixel and smooth swing while being extremely easy to program.
may the force be with you
Awesome quick summary! Thanks.
Very helpful and you did a great job at explaining the different boards, thank you!
Wish this series was released and I saw it before I bought my Ultracrap.. welp
I’m just excited NEW VID I mean the vids are just quality
I was just talking with my friend about adding a sound board to my lightsaber 😆
Ok question is there a way that I can turn on the led but not the sound then turn on the sound when I want?
Bro. You need to research the Sabertec Golden Harvest V3. Smoothswing, neopixel, accents, super easy to wire up, fantastic tech support, and almost half the price of CFX. The smoothswing algorithm is the same across the three boards, but the threshold settings on GHv3 are perfect right out of the box. No advanced coding or setup necessary.
I hope you have a good Christmas
hey hey!! you too. thank you :D
@@StarWarsIRL thanks I wish I could talk to you more often because your videos are so cool and funny.
Actually, Proffieboard already does all of what CFX does, and more. Not the potential, but already does. As for the "and more", someone's already programmed interaction between a saber and a blaster using IR blasters and sensors to trigger blaster blocks. In short, welcome the lightsaber in a game of laser tag.
I just updated my Verso board to the latest beta and now it holds multiple fonts, has lock up, blaster deflection, and accent swings! If you are thinking about soldering your first lightsaber I HIGHLY recommend Verso! Then go to the Verso support FB page and search for the latest beta and install that on your SD card and BOOM smooth swing neopixel saber with all the main cool effects like color change on the fly and blade style selection on the fly!
I still don't get why The Custom Saber Shop was not on the list of saber stores to know on your last video. The have all the parts needed to build a lightsaber - from the simplest to the most feature rich (I don't work for them, just a loyal customer).
Yup I have been a tcss customer for over 13 years!
@@RandomStuffGarage619 According to my TCSS forum profile, i have been their customer since 2005.
@@RandomStuffGarage619 15 years for me. The IRL saber group I am in makes a quarterly group order from TCSS. Best source for lightsaber parts if you want to get your order arriving in about a week.
@@vincee2527 I posted on the forums there as jedi mynock. On fxsabers I go by Katarn. How about you guys?
OMG Thank you so much, these videos are SO HELPFUL. Your great👏😁👌
Thank the force I needed this video
Please keep going with these videos I really do want to make my own lightsaber for dueling and cosplay
what is the second song please? at 1:01
I’m working on building a Han Solo blaster, with sounds and lights
I had to build my first saber because the only two Sound modules on the market was Crystal Focus and a company called Ultrasound. I went with the cheaper one. That is what it was. My hilt was made from a sink tube and adapters to accept MHS parts from The Custom Saber Shop.
Love the vid
Thank you!
2:24 I see someone has been watching John Oliver lately.
Another example of the car analogy is like a pc the CFX is a prebuilt where the other one is like a pc you build
I just ordered a crimson dawn saber with a proffie board, I’m so excited! Love these videos, they are so informative and entertaining!
I love your video, every entertaining! Thank you for sharing
Im buildings my first saber and you start that video series. We are connected
I like the pew pew sound
This is so helpful thank you
Okay dude. great video, but you literally did not put any soundboard links in the description. Hope this changes in the future.
I hate myself for this but first
Hello thank you for the nice video! I have one very important question and I really hope you will see this. I have already ordered a soundboard to upgrade my cheap RGB lightsaber with 3 soundfonts to a lightsaber with Smooth Swing and better sound fonts. My plan was to switch the old soundboard with the new one. Now I realised that my lightsaber doesn't really have an extra soundboard. There is only one circuit board in the lightsaber which every calbe goes to and it also has the button and the charging port on it. What do I do now? Is this still possible?
Thank you for your help!
Sorry if my English is bad, I'm not a native speaker.
God i wish this video came out a month earlier. I didn’t look into it properly and i got a saber with a verso board and it’s not what i hoped it would be
I don’t know if you’ll ever see this, but if you have a RGB lightsaber with a LED blade, will that saber work with a custom soundboard even though it’s not neopixel ?
I actually want to get a lightsaber soon. This really helped!
Are those compatible with say, single color LED string blades? Yeah, slowly working on a homemade lightsaber, making my own hilt.. thanks
thanks for the bday post :p
Came here specially to see what you thought of the GH v3 board, hope you cover it sometime because it's one of the top two I'm trying to decide between!
Also, love the John Oliver reference.
Have you tried replacing the soundboard that's inside of the Savi's Workshop lightsaber? Because I'd be extremely interested to see the process, the pros, the cons, everything in-between!
I just want to put smooth swing on my savi's work shop saber. and I can't find a tutorial anywhere for that.
Could i use an esp32 instead off these soundboard??
Golden Harvest is also good. As well as the Asteria Heart from Ultimate Works and The Pach Store.
Also in the process of making my first lightsaber although I went with the proffie.. wish me luck
I do have a recommendation is if you have a custom lightsaber from galaxys edge and have access to a 3D printer you can make your own parts
It has been almost 2 years, i can't find any of the boards you mentioned. Shops are closed or no stock. Anyone knows where i can buy some in Europe? q.q
i have a CFX soundboard but how do i get the effects in it ?
Man i love you. I really want to build lightsaber and with this videos it's really possible I can make it. But I have one question, is there any free codes for proffie on the internet or tutorials?
Can I get a sound board not directed to lightsabers and have it still work with a lightsaber
Awesome
Did you take those links down for the sound board websites? Cuz I don't see them in the description
Im saving up for a sabertrio FX saber now is it worth it?
I've never purchased one but I've only heard amazing things about Sabertrio. You'll be very happy with it!
@@StarWarsIRL thanks I might get it after this quarantine isnt so strict and bussineses come back
No love for the Golden Harvest board?
I've been looking forward to this
You won't get away this time, Dooku!
@@FatalCorleone07 your swords please, no need to make a mess of things in front of the chancellor
@@lukecobabe3673 My powers have doubled since the last time we met, Count
@@FatalCorleone07 Good, twice the pride, double the fall
Is the video prior to this one supposed to be private?
Do you know about the GHv3?
Yes. I heard that the Golden Harvest is a "step in the right direction", but still using outdated technology and not up to par with the others on this list.
@@StarWarsIRL it’s surpassed cfx in features
Step 1: buy a galaxy’s edge saber
Step 2: use it
Thanks for the heart! love your vids!
I have a question about my Jedi challenges it is broken
what do you think of golden harvest soundboard
I saw that when you buy soundfonts off of places like saberfonts and kyberphonic they have a force sound you can add on to it im just wondering how can i add it since theres no force folder, just a blaster folder you can use the button for
I wish there was a series like this for PC builds
What about usb charging for your lightsaber?
Go Proffie or go home. Honestly though, I jumped into sabersmithing with Proffie. I barely knew any coding but Facebook groups like the Open Source Proffie group has many experienced members who are more than happy to help! One thing I love about Khal and KR is that he not only offers his own Verso, but will also sell Proffie and CFX AND he also sells a very cheap PCB so that people can practice their soldering skills
Does the "pixel" in ecopixel, neopixel, xenopixel relates to the soundboard or to the lighting?
I thought Golden Harvest V3 and ProffieBoard were the best , GH V3 comming in first because its more user friendly.
where i can get a CFX saundboard ?
Where are the links to where to buy them?
Golden Harvest V3 is another soundboard
Link to the facebook page says page isnt available?
Where can I buy a cfx or proffie
Just want to give a shout out to jakesoft Arduino lightsaber, it's about £20 with Nano, 6050 and df player
what about Golden Harvest?
You really need to dip a toe into the Proffie side of things yourself and not take the word of others as truth.
Learning Proffie is currently no harder than CFX. There is a pre-built library of blade animations that hands down make the CFX styles look like a Hasbro kids toy. If you want to see how easy it is to learn join the Proffie groups on Facebook.
also made a comment like this. I bought a CFX because I did not do research myself and paid 3 times more and don't have a feature I badly want. I was stupid and too trusting. Do your own research when choosing a board.
what a promo
I rember that episode
I love that UltraSabers has an ad to visit their site on your RUclips page. Argh!