Saber Cores

The board decides what you can change. Nothing else.

What is a Saber Core?

A Saber Core is the electronics package fitted inside a lightsaber hilt: the board, the speaker, the lighting and the firmware that runs them. ARTSABERS carries five — S-RGB, RGB-X, Xenopixel V3, SNV4 PRO and Proffie 2.2 — and each one is a different amount of control handed over to the owner. Two hilts that look the same on a shelf can behave nothing alike, and the core is why. “Soundboard” is the same thing under a different name; it appears in spec tables and filter labels so cross-shopping stays easy.

Is Proffie 2.2 better than Xenopixel V3?

Not better — different, and on one measure behind. Both are neopixel cores driving the same kind of blade, so nothing about the blade separates them. Proffie 2.2 runs full ProffieOS, which means blade styles, effects and sound fonts are files you can edit; Xenopixel V3 gives you preset banks to choose from. But Xenopixel V3 ships the larger stock sound font library. If the appeal is opening the firmware and writing your own, Proffie is the only core that allows it. If the appeal is the widest library working the moment it arrives, it isn’t.

Which Saber Core should I choose?

It turns on one thing: how much of the blade’s behaviour you want to be yours to set. If a lit saber with a colour and a sound you pick once is the whole of it, a baselit core does that and asks nothing of you. If colour without limit and an app to drive it is what you want, a neopixel core does that. If you want to open the files and write the blade style yourself, Proffie 2.2 is the only core that lets you. All three are the right answer for somebody.