DEATH STAR II + LED LASER TUTORIAL
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- #StarWars #DeathStar #Tutorial
There are many iconic images from the Star Wars universe, but one of the most iconic is obviously the big space ball known as the Death Star. Many of you have asked how to wire the LED filaments, so I made this project specifically to include a tutorial for how to do that. This is only for 12V LED filament bulbs. Please do not attempt with anything other than 12V bulbs.
And yes, I have seen Star Wars before. I understand that there are converging lasers at the base of the main laser when the Death Star fires its super weapon. I will try to figure out ways to accomplish that next time.
Materials:
12V LED Bulb amzn.to/2RnBGJs
Bandai Death Star II 1:2700000 Scale amzn.to/33kYejS
Softball Display Box amzn.to/3c0ePxi
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Heat Shrink Tubing amzn.to/2ZxjpOB
Enamel Coated Wire amzn.to/2FuRVlm
Old USB Chord
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Supplies:
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Respirator
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Pencil
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Paint:
Primer - Krylon Flat Black Primer
Gray - Vallejo Sky Gray + Black or White for various shades
Green - Model Master Acrylic Transparent Green
Wire - Culture Hustle Black 3.0
Music:
Take It Easy - Bad Snacks
Lullaby - Yung Logos
Hanging Out - Bruno E.
Flames - Dan Henig
Disclaimer: Some of the actions seen in the video could cause bodily harm. I am not responsible for anything you do while attempting to recreate what you see in this video.
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Also to anyone that decides to build this to keep in mind..... on the LED filament... there is a small hole on one side that’s how you tell the difference between negative and positive leads
Witness the power of this fully assembled and operational hobby project.
you win this one
I never even thought about dismantling led bulbs this has really inspired me thinking about those cheap led flash lights from the supermarket for battery operated displays thanks mate
I've only just started working with leds/lighting of any kind and it still scares me half to death. Watching you dismantle a bulb and rewire it gives me the (envy) spooks.
It's true not all heroes wear capes some have exacto knives.
Extraordinary, just extraordinary!
the use of these leds is so creative and I haven't seen anyone done it before. Very creative!!
Love it. It's so amazing to see how much thought and electrical engineering goes into adding one custom made laser to the model.
Another fantastic build! Looks awesome! For the converging lasers try electroluminescent wires. EL wire. Might need a little bigger model but might get the look you want.
I'm an old fan of Star Wars. Thank you for your wonderful work. 감사합니다😀👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇰🇷
Bravo ! Now, what about a try on Alien's subjects ? A main corridor in the Nostromo with lights like in the movie ? Narcissus shuttle with engines expulsing the monster in bright lights ?
YES!
Yes!
Imagine going into this dudes house, His whole house is definitely a art museum!
Super dope build! Love the look of the second Death Star, always thought it looked really cool. Thanks for the wiring tutorial too! Super interesting to watch
This looks sick! Great Job.
I used to do stuff like this YEARS ago, but have since given up and now just build stuff in C G. Takes up less shelf space. I love your builds! Totally envious!
Outstanding! You are truly king of the nano builds!
great tutorial on harvesting the led filaments from a led lightbulb. thank you
Amazing work, seriously how does this channel not have more subscribers?
Agreed, it deserves so much more!
Dang! This has got to be one of your coolest builds yet!
You bring Star Wars ships to life 🎉
Astonishing attention to detail
Hello, great work.
Did you run the filament led that you removed from the 12v lamp, then with 5V using a USB cable?
Thanks! You've brought back my love to star wars.
Needed this video! Working on a Squadrons diorama influenced by you! Thanks for all the content!
i cant believe i just found this channel, im obsessed with this and Minibricks of course lol
I love these projects with the led filament... very cool.
Is at 1/2,700,000 scale.
Damn it! I thought i'd get a life sized death star at last
Ikr! 😂
Sick project. I’m still lost on the wiring though. 😞
So good. Thank you for the LED breakdown. Love your work!
Another amazing build! Thanks for the tutorial with the LEDs!
well i don't´know that you had to choose between have a kickass Death star model or keep you fingers, yOu are a great artist and a daredevil.
Fantastic work at the project Death Star and the electronic part of the diorama are amazing . I like very much the concept and how do you worked at this project . Thank you for sharing my friend !👏👏👏🏆🥇🙂👍
This looks sick. I only wish they made it so that you could run both wires out the bottom of one of the filament rods, that way it would look better when it’s not in the dark. Awesome build man, can’t wait to see what you do with the star destroyer
Yeah, I will definitely try to do another Death Star in the future. I’ve learned a lot from this one.
Speechless.... I have no words to describe how epic this is
Thanks again for the LED tutorial! The Death Star looks incredible! Well done!
Do you have a show-room for all your wonderful pieces? If yes, I would absolutely LOVE to a tour-video! Keep rockin!
Man it looks awesome, great job!!
I've been going through all of your custom star wars model videos and absolutely love them! You've inspired me and now I want to create my own but I'm a little put off by the soldering, wiring, capacitor aspect of things. Do you think you could make a micro electrical engineering for dummies video? Love all of your stuff dude, keep up the great content.
Thanks, Brandon! I will probably do more tutorial type videos in the future! Stay tuned.
Beautifully made!
it's so simple yet very well done!
love it
would it matter me just wiring the filaments straight up to a usb cable without the driver? feel like its only needed for the switch no?
The driver probably changes the output. You can test the output of the usb with a voltage meter and compare it to the driver output. If the driver has the same out put, yes, you are correct, you can wire it straight to the usb.
Can't wait to see you follow up on this! Looks amazing!
Great job, I was really impressed with your X-Wing diorama....
A great little build that's marginally less dangerous than the actual Death Star!
Haha! Yes, ever so slightly less dangerous.
Amazing simple & clear !
I got some bandai star wars models coming up... Can't wait to try this!!
"Do or do not,there is no try!"
I love your videos so much, they are so good and I love Star Wars too, ive seen almost everyone of your videos, keep it up!
Thanks, Peyton!
Your work has been awesome. Considering the skills you've exhibited I find it funny that people think you'd use uninsulated wires.
I am fascinated by the use of these filament bulbs, after some investigation I found that you can buy those filament wires cheap from China without the bulb part. Also comes in red, blue and green glow.. Also found a flexible version filament that might be cool for a project. Keep up the good work!
From what I have found, all the colorful ones and the long flexible ones are for high voltage only. I’ve played around with high voltage and its rather precarious.
You can buy the components of the driver separately, but I like that everything is included with the bulbs.
@@Boylei I found a few that runs on DC3V 100mA on Aliexpress. Just search for "Edison Filament 3V" and you should find them on Aliexpress 😃 Check it out..
Damn dude, your upload schedule is insane for the size of the projects you do, you must have a killer work ethic
Thank you! I usually have a few projects going at once.
@@Boylei Tight dude, keep it up, I love seeing your stuff in my feed
I really like seeing this early video AFTER seeing the later ones, the change to a filament and the return conductor both encased in a cocktail straw was a MAJOR game changer, this project redone with that new method would be fun.
Very cool project. Amazing job. Have you possibly given thought to running the secondary wire alongside the led? Since the amperage is so low with one led, you could possibly use a piece of extremely light gauge copper wire that is insulated with the enamel coating. Some of those wires are as fine as a hair. Perhaps a future project.
Excellent video and tutorial.
I just took one of these bulbs apart and in my haste, I managed to damage two of the filaments. That is to say, the outer part of the filament was quite delicate and while I was cutting it off the tree of wires that it’s mounted on, this outer shell split. I don’t suppose this outer part is repairable with clear tape?
Still, I managed to get four filaments out and the driver works really well. Can’t wait to use it.
Appreciate the 'Health & Safety' disclaimer, man. More channels should have them
Great project/video, man
This is so cool. I'm blown away
5:30 talks about safety and insulated wires, 6:30 tries to drill into his hand
hahahah
great diorama, love it!!
That looks great I am going to have try that technique one of these days
Thank you! You definitely should.
As always great job . That is awesome.
First off I always enjoy watching you work, great job! Secondly 12v vs 120v is it that you have an exposed filament that could cause a fire really easy? Can you run the filament out of a 120v at low voltage?
Thank you! The voltage running through the filaments in my storm trooper diorama is around 60v. Those came from the 120v bulb. That’s still quite high and very capable of causing a dangerous spark. I don’t know if you can run them much lower with the same visual effect.
Your built inspired me to do the same with my Christmas gift 😁
I also light up the side rays with fiber optics.
I still like your version better but my results turned out nice too :)
Another excellent video and build, thank you.
Looks amazing! And thanks for the LED-Tutorial.
Very cool and well done. Came out great.
Thanks so much for watching!
Love how you educate bout the bulb. More power!
Very cool. You got the like as soon as the video started. Before I even saw how it was done. It looks merchandisable. They should give you a royalty and produce these.
Looks amazing, and great idea with leds.
Thanks so sick 👍👍👍may the force be with you always 🙏
I'd love to see you live stream you making a diorama like this :)
Awesome work and idea - nice!!!
Holy crap, I used to do model cars after school in a club lmao for like a month, I want to start again and do this it is awesome
I love starwars everything and thanks for ur make this vids
That was very interesting. I feel I may die trying this. Gonna have to watch this video several thousand times more to feel comfortable.
Haha nah. Just don’t cut your fingers and you’ll be fine.
Such amazing talent, you’ll have a million subscribers in no time.
this looks amazing... but i would have loved to see the extra detail of 8 points of green laser combining into the final point and emitting that main blast. :-)
I've been following your video's and this is the best by far
Wow thank you so much! Been waiting for this. Death star was a good idea. So far your a wing diorama is probably my favorite! One question though. I thought using a parallel circuit would affect the brightness of each led strip or is that not the case?
Thank you!
That’s true. I used another type of 12V bulb for the A-Wing and X-Wing projects, but I found that it only dims slightly as more filaments are added. Depends on the driver I imagine.
I'm loving these! GREAT show ol' sport.
Why the change from cellophane? When using cellophane, do you tape it?
Also, can I use the 12v driver with the 120v LEDs? I like that they are longer.
I'll be attempting the xwing fight as a gift to someone.
Keep up the GREAT work!
Thanks! I changed from the cellophane cause I wanted to see if painting was an option. Turns out it works pretty well!
With the cellophane I super glued it straight to the filament.
I don’t know if that works. I believe the voltage requirement of the filaments found in 120v bulbs is around 60v.
I would recommend using the low voltage if you are giving it to a friend.
Ты великолепен! Спасибо за подробные туториалы!
Another way to add the metal look is with silver rub and buff, put a tiny amount on a towel and gently apply it on, buff away with a clean towel and it’ll mark the higher surfaces
Thats no moon, thats a 1/2700000 scale model. great video, very inspiring
Awesome Build!
Cool looking model.
this is so awesome!!! I want to try one...gotta do some research!!
Simply but incredible
Hi. I'm from Chile. Congratulations. Awsome work. I saw yor Darth Vader work. How do you do the Light Saber? It is longer than the laser blasts
Thanks so much! I used a longer, high voltage filament for his saber. It’s a little too dangerous though. I am not trying to encourage others to try it.
Dude that's sick! Do you sell or create custom ones?
I have subbed, due to sheer genius.
This is fantastic. Quick question. I have followed the steps, but when I touch the LED to the wires it is bright at first, then fades to barely a glow. I used the exact same light bulb, as well as an old USB cable. Is it the fact I am using a 5v adapter instead of 12v? The only other thing I can think of is that I messed up the soldering somehow.
For the converging lasers, did you try using the same size filaments but blacking out half of the length and leaving that pressed inside the death star? Room might be too tight to pull off at this scale, definitely a tricky game of tetris. Loving the videos, keep it up!
That’s a great suggestion. I may try this again with a larger Death Star and try that method.
The lighting tutorial was great
Beautiful as always!!!
Never thought a scale of something could be, in the millions
This is amazing are there any step by step tutorials on how to do this ?
I've been trying to do this technique myself for a few weeks now since I found your channel but I can't get the insulation off my LED Driver, now I see how you do it. Maybe now I can pull this off
Great! Hope it’s helpful!
i love these so much
Lights make everything better
I can only say the same as for the other ones, looks freakin awesome. Very well done, sir, keep it up!
One thing with the small beams connecting into the large one, you could've used small strings of hot glue. If it's dark the lighting will pass through it like it's actually lit up.
Another great build, thanks for sharing!
Do you do consignments and if so how much do they usually cost?
You make magic bro !!!
You should get 1m subs ! Good quality content!