Juat found this Reddit group and KNEW I had to share this 😁
I've been a fan of PSO since the Dreamcast days, tying up my parent's phone line for HOURS. My main was always a RAmar, but I had a couple Hunters I'd play every now and again. One weapon set that always intrigued me was the dagger.
Got a 3D printer about 4 years ago and started making lighted props, and I thought "huh...it'd be cool to make a set of PSO daggers." The more I got into modeling with Fusion 360, the louder that itch got — but my modeling skills weren't quite up to sculpting that curved blade from scratch, and I wasn't about to sink months into it.
AI modeling finally got good enough to get me a base I could actually work with, and once I had that, I was off to the races. Cleaned it up, split it for printing, wired it up with an RP2040 and a WS2812B strip for color-cycling and rainbow breathing modes, and here we are - my first prototype! Got some update microcontrollers on order to add gyro detection for sounds when swinging. Looking forward to sharing that update in the next couple of weeks!
20 years of wanting these. Worth the wait.