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| − | == Lamp / Night Light Project == | + | === Projects === |
| − | I had a piece of black cherry log in my shop that was well seasoned, so I decide to try and make something from it.
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| − | My 3 year old really enjoys looking at colored lights, so I decided to make him a nightlight / lamp.
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| − | [https://imgur.com/a/P2IYevr Imgur Gallery of Progress] | + | |
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| − | I started by roughing out a cylinder on the wood lathe. I then used a drill press to make holes around the outside of that cylinder.
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| − | After that I used a 2-part epoxy with a small amount of acrylic paint to fill the holes with different colors. Once that was all hardened, I returned
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| − | to the wood lathe, turned the outside down, and hollowed out the interior. After much sanding it was finally smooth enough, and I coated the entire piece in
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| − | a clear epoxy.
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| − | I then needed a base and cap for the lamp. I though about casting something out of epoxy or turning something out of wood, but I wanted something heavier than that
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| − | so the sake of stability. I also wanted something that could act as a heat sink for the LEDs as well as a capacitive touch sensor. I decided to go with aluminum.
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| − | I was given some scrap aluminum, which I smelted down and poured into an empty tin can. After cooling, I used the metal lathe to turn it down into the desired shape.
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| − | A few drill press holes later and the base is basically finished, with the exception of final finishing an polishing.
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| − | The light is an aluminum rod surrounded by LED strips. I used some large heat-shrink tubing to hold them on, as I didn't trust the adhesive backing to hold once things got a bit warm.
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| − | Both ends of the rod are drilled and tapped wityh a 5/16-18 thread, which matches holes on the base and cap. These will be used to screw everything together.
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| − | I will be placing the electronics into the base of the lamp, and hopefully using the metal parts as a capacitive touch sensor for operation. I may (or may not) have two or
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| − | three levels of brightness that it can be cycled through.
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| − | I still need to turn the cap.
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