Golden Wave Lamp

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For a newer and improved version on my own website, go to https://www.designuitinspiratie.nl/gouden-golf-lamp/  This is an LED Lamp based on an upside-down vase. It consists of 2 parts. Depending on the light source I use, I printed the base in ABS because my LEDs & resistors can get very hot. But of course if you use a light source that does not get hot you can use another material than ABS. In the pictures you can see my solution for a light source - it's a piece of aluminum I milled down so I could thermo glue the LEDs in. For the RED and GREEN LED, I used 47Ohm resistors to dim them down a bit, so the BLUE one looks a bit brighter in comparison. My power source is a USB charger. The lamp's shade is printed using the “Spiral Outer Contour Mode” in Cura. One bottom layer, using a 0.4mm nozzle. The lamp shade is printed upside-down (the orientation of the model should be right already when loaded into the slicer program). The material used was Gold PLA, but if I were to make this lamp's shade again, I would use Translucent PET-G - it lets more light through. Settings used in Cura for printing the base in ABS are as follows: 0% infill, zero top layers, Z seam alignment set to “Shortest”, three bottom layers, wall thickness 1.6mm. Please note that these settings are for a 0.4mm nozzle size - and yes, print time is long because I'm printing with ABS. PS: The original size of the lamp shade is 271.1mm. I tested the fit with the base in this dimension, but scaling down the model too much may cause fitting issues - I haven't tested it yet. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.