Let me take the time to quell some of the rampant questions about this saber. First, no, I am not going to let the rear of the pommel look like a salt shaker. No way. I will probably remove the top of the handwheel like I did on my last saber of this design, which will let sound out, and it happens to look nice as well.
As for the recharge port, I am still undecided, but it will either go in the same place as the last saber, or it might be in the middle of the pommel where the star-shaped depression is. Either will work nice, but it would be easier to install in the pommel. It all depends on the ability to easily take the saber apart to access the SD card should Joclad tire of the sounds and want to change them.
As for the sounds, they are 16-bit sounds in .RAW format. They are very clean and nice. Mixing your own sounds is very difficult, so I will most likely not design my own soundfont for this saber, although I want to. The SD card comes with 4 distinct soundfonts already, and all of them kick a$$. I would personally look to Erv's site for downloadable soundfonts, since they are already checked out by him and are good to go. Then, it's a simple "drag and drop" to replace the existing ones. All the documentation for the board will ship with the saber.
Erv's board can drive an LED array in distinct patterns, but since the LED array is one of Corbin's, it will serve only as a battery indicator, unless Jocald wants me to bypass the Corbin LED on-board processor. That might be tricky. Having a static LED array showing how much charge the battery pack is still enough "bling", IMHO.
Keep the questions coming. If I don't answer them here, I will answer them in another installment of my build log on MySpace, or on YouTube. By the way, can YouTube accept .mov files? Anyone know?