Thanks for the kind words.
What you guys have created is perfect for people to tinker and build upon. The heavy lifting has already been done and I can just play and create. It was a challenging and enjoyable project. If only the Arduino Nano had more flash memory...
Originally this was going to be my test saber with the internals accessible for testing out new ideas, but it evolved over time. The "maintenance mode", for lack of a better term, came about because it occurred to me that since I was using a switch for the "active hilt" switch (Did I just coin that?), I could do the same for the case and would have another way of using the Neopixels. I had to make some changes to put all other functions on suspend when the case is off because I would occasionally bump a switch when removing or attaching the case and it would ruin the effect. The Neopixel accent bar currently has a couple of functions that can be adjusted for speed, but I hope to expand on it.