Among the different project started this summer, here is a funny one. I got the idea as soon as I started my first comlink, an "almost-replica" of obiwan's one. Made of a Gilette shaver for women, as most of you know.

►The youtube video

 
Some readings about jedi comlinks (classic sources, however, it's a forum, a bit of shared knowledge does not hurt) :

My First Comlink :

Here is the headset :

Unmounting the headset was not easy, since it's almost water/wind proof. The dremel was the way to go.

I replaced the LEDs by some bigger ones, 2x 3 mm ones for the red+blue, and replaced the orange charging one by another blue smd one. I also had to change a few resistors on the board to adapt the current on the new LEDs and get a nice illumination. I used ultra thin tweezer to change them, since those resistors were in 410 smd foot print (.4 mm wide x 1 mm long).

The grip was the most complicated thing to deal with. This is a shaver like the old ones (a re-edition, though) with a silicone rubber grip. Once you remove all the plastic of the skeleton, it's not staying in place. Silicone can't be painted in a regular way, even with a primer. I therefore used resin to stabilise the grip. Once the grooves have been partially filled, I used my electric file to thinner the grip. Then I used some fiber glass mat and resin to continue stabilising the thing.
One groove has been remove to leave the sound from the speaker coming out. 2 additionnal layers of resin, primer, and paint.

With my cell phone, that has some lightsaber sounds when I slide it ! The screen saver has some SW stuff inside too, of course. The blue LED blink, the comlink is connected to the phone.


Back side

oohhhhhh, an elephant comlink... or a duck one, as you wish... Just before gluing the whole thing.


► The finished comlink