A lightsaber is the primary weapon of the sith and jedi orders in Star Wars: having him in real life is the dream of many fans of the saga. A youtuber achieved a Guinness record by making one, It is a masterpiece of engineering.
The award went to the first retractable lightsaber.
It happened in 2022. Alex Burkan, content creator on YouTube, works mostly with 3D printing. But all his life he thought about how to do a lightsaber in the best style of Star Wars.
The result: a blade that produces a plasma blade over a meter long, with temperatures of more than 2,800 °C.
The blade works to cut steel!
Burkan tells how he came to create his own lightsaber: “Since 2013, the main field of my research and work was the hydrogen generation equipment, so I decided I could build something.”
“Each step during the development and construction process was a challenge,” says the youtuber in his conversation with Guinness.
The path to the Star Wars-like lightsaber
The first thing he did was design high-pressure equipment to fit the batten: “The key component of my lightsaber is an electrolyser, a device that can generate large amounts of hydrogen and oxygen and compress the gas to any pressure, without a mechanical compressor.”
The youtuber was able to adapt the hydrogen and oxygen burner so that it would have the required shape and length for his lightsaber.
“The most challenging job,” says Burkan, “It was squeezing the entire gas distribution system into the handle of a lightsaber.”
Once the goal is achieved, he tested it by cutting metal. It is impressive to see it in action.
However, the saber that received the Guinness record is only a prototype that works for only 30 seconds at full power. “It’s not as stable as it could be, and you can easily see it when it moves,” stresses.
“I think that science will help us And finally we can bring the lightsaber closer to the film version.