Heart Lithophane Lamp

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I set out to design a lamp that would allow me to simply use a standard LED strip without having to worry about soldering or any other complexities. Given my time constraints for designing and printing, this is far from being the best solution or most well-designed way to route the LED strip, but it works perfectly fine and looks really great. My printer isn't producing high-quality prints, so I've built in a lot of tolerance into the model where things fit together, but a bit of glue should keep everything rigid if needed. This project was never intended for public upload, but since a few people asked for the STL files, it's not exactly the most straightforward to produce. To print, scale up the part by 1000%. For some reason, when I export from Inventor, it comes out tiny. And use corner bracket rev 4. I used 3DP rocks to create the lithophanes. The side lithos have a thickness of 2.8mm and a maximum size of 120mm with 4mm borders. They measure 120x80x2.8mm. The top lithophanes are slightly more complex. With 3mm borders, the height of the bottom lithos needs to be 69.582mm with borders and the width 67.442 mm with borders. For the upper lithos, the dimensions are 69.585 and 67.442 respectively. I've included a PowerPoint file with the box for your pictures to fit into the correct size. So crop your picture to the size of this box, group it with the cutout line, right-click, and save as a picture. In a photo editing program, crop out the cutout and then put it into the 3DP rocks lithophane generator. Once printed, you'll need to cut off the excess – I heated up a Stanley blade with a lighter and melted the plastic to cut it off. Some math may be required, and I apologize for any confusion. I used these LEDs and you can see how I fitted them in the images. This isn't the most efficient mounting method or cleanest solution, but it works just fine. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B072NYZ187/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I probably haven't been clear enough in these instructions – if you need any help or clarification, just drop a comment.