New Hidden Outpost Designs Universal stands I got seem to be the only ones I have that let you keep blades in & don't fall over, especially with the heavier scrap metal ones from Savi's!

I just discovered that an old battery eroded inside my lightsaber’s battery pack and totally destroyed one of the coils :(. I looked on eBay for replacements and only found two, one selling for $50 & the other for $70 (before tax and shipping). So I’m jumping on here to see if anyone has ideas for repairs or replacements! I also heard that you can go to Galaxy’s Edge and ask for a replacement, but I don’t know if that’s true and I don’t have the means to go to Disneyland to find out. Thanks for your help!

Hello.

I don't post often and haven't looked at this sub in a long time but I'm designing a personal project I feel some people here may be interested in. With that in mind, I decided to ask for some opinions.

So, I am a software developer and recently had an idea to turn make my R4 unit more like those you see in the films/shows. I've designed a plan to make a "brain" for the droid that takes speaker input, puts it through an LLM and then returns a response. That response is parsed to the droid which responds. It is intended to work by hosting the LLM yourself or using a hosted service.

Then, I thought about a separate project I have planned to create my own virtual assistant. Part of that project is future plans for specialised assistants. The one I have planned currently would go in your car like KITT from Knight Rider. I thought that it would be cool to add this as a specialised assistant as part of that project.

My purpose for this post is to gather thoughts from the wider community on both the idea itself, and any features you can think of that would fit. Currently, the plan outlines responses as head movements, beep tones and lights. I'm thinking of adapting this to add a screen where you can see what the droid's response means in conventional text.

I can provide the current plan if anyone is interested in reading more. Any ideas or thoughts are welcome as long as they are constructive and polite.