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We wanted an LED lantern to use on the boat but none took our fancy, so I decided to design one.
I bought a strip of USB powered LED lights which slide into channels on the post in the middle of the lantern. Excuse the shonky soldering, I’m no pro!
The base has a hole which the LED post sits in and used a little bit of blutac to fix it place termporarily (although temporary may actually turn out to be long turn as it seems to be doing the job well!).
I then used my ColorFabb clear filament to print a cover for it.
The outcome is actually rather good 🙂
Is that Philips Hue LED lighting?
Steve N | Creator of things both virtual and physical
No, just a simple USB powered strip of lights.
nice. how many perimeters were used for the clear as looks like a very good finish - also any specific settings used?
… waiting for picture while LEDs are working…
@click Pretty sure the LEDs are on for the last one.
Yes, I can see it now. Sorry. I expected more dramatic effect (not only black shadow at the top). Speaking of that shadow - I can call it a slight design flaw 🙂 Slightly higher housing might have avoided it a bit…
The lantern shade is 1mm thick. I can’t remember if I printed it using the 0.8mm head or not, probably was.
it doesn’t look like it, but the share is actually 100mm high, so at the maximum for the printer. The central column height is the minimum it can be due to the length of each segment of the LED strips.
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