A LED Katana made in only 7 days!

Feb 25, 2023Crafting Projects7 comments

Wildhearts LED Karakuri Katana by Kamui Cosplay

What’s better than a Katana? A light up LED Katana that also plays sounds! Electronic Arts asked us to bring our favorite weapon from their new game Wild Hearts to life and I’m so excited to finally build the sword of my dreams! The original Karakuri Katana from the game has a really fancy special attach and lights up! So, it was an amazing opportunity to finally bring this blade to life! Hope you enjoy this little tutorial!

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Want to build this super cool prop as well? We actually added the LED Katana to our shop, ready to print and assemble! The project was incredible fun and something I always wanted to create! Thanks so much to Adafruit.com! Their light saber tutorial was a huge inspiration for this project. It took us around one weeks to finish the blade. Benni made the 3D model completely from scratch using Blender. If you are curious, just check out our 3D printing and modeling book if you are curious! We printed everything on a ABS 3D printer using white ABS with a pretty thin wall.

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7 Comments

Anonymous on September 13, 2023 at 10:31 pm

hey I was wondering if you have any suggestions for building a lightsaber?
I only can use basic tools at this point.
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Ari on August 13, 2023 at 7:58 pm

I had a question, I just purchased katana plans, adafruit is out of the Propmaker featherwing. do you have any suggestions for suitable substitute? thank you for your time.
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- Benni on August 14, 2023 at 9:36 pm
  
  Really? Oh man. The Feather Wing was already the substitute for the TrinketPro. Adafruit should really get their act together… :-(
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trap the cat on June 28, 2023 at 1:08 am

A beautiful sword. I wanna have it.
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Roller Baller on May 2, 2023 at 11:50 pm

It’s great that you guys always care about the users and give these useful tutorials.
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Candy Crush on April 7, 2023 at 7:38 am

Unique coverless design efficiently reducing the noise,built with double folding copper core thermal heatsink and coated with aviation aluminum,combined 12,000 rotations per minute,ensure maximum cooling,make KATANA headlight shine up to 55,000 hours.
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gary blackwood on March 19, 2023 at 4:19 am

You could also add little LED lens caps for the 5050 LEDthat are used on LED strips to spread the light out so they merge together more.
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