In the summer of 2021 I made some major changes to my student room on campus. Well it was mainly moving around stuff from one corner to the other but in a kind of orderly way. I bought a simple 1m high closet which, next to storing stuff, also acts as a workbench to work on small projects and to assemble 3D prints. But there was too little light so I decided to design a fully 3D printed lamp.

Since a long time, I have been inspired by Japanese culture and design. I wanted to combine the classic style of Japanese carpentry design with the idea of a modern lamp/lantern. After a bit of sketching I quickly started modelling in Solidworks. I modelled in such a way that it is printable on my Ender 3 V2 3D printer in separate big prints. This big project kind of scared me which held me back for quite a while. After looking at more inspiration and thinking it over a few times I changed my mind on the kind of lamp I wanted to make and started sketching again. Here is the result which is supposed to be a notch smaller.

I was pretty sure that this was what I actually wanted and started modelling a 20 cm high version. I had a general idea of how I wanted to construct the lamp but while working in Solidworks, a lot of tweaking was done with sketching sessions in between. The final result consists of 12 hard (PLA) parts and 4 small flexible (TPU) parts that are supposed to click on the bottom to avoid slipping. So 16 parts in total. Here are some screenshots of the result:

Things I ordered for the build:
–    Rice paper
–    Dimmable LED light bulb Warm White (7 Watt)
–    Cheap dimmer from China (works totally fine)
–    Cheap light bulb fitting from China (shipping took painfully long)