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This build is just another stepping stone in a long process. Their older videos on other lightsaber prototypes are here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUdLlGLSQHQ&list=PLbncXbXlaN...

They aren't shy about their process of iteration at all. And that is a great thing that I think a lot of HN could appreciate. Especially in hardware, things take their own time.[0]

More power to Hacksmith (pun intended). I think they stuff they are putting out is amazing considering the budgets, time, and manpower issues. They somehow are managing to fund, off YouTube and ads, the crazy ideas you'd get from too many beers with too many Lockheed R&D researchers. That's impressive on it's own. These guys are embodying the old MIT 'hacker' ethos very well.

[0] Good Lord, I wish they would spend more time on the safety part of the builds. The lasers they get from StryoPyro will blind them sooner than later. I remember being caviler about lasers. But then I lost some vision, and now I'm not.