hexagon light panel

myminifactory

Human: Hexagonal LED Light Panel. I'm really excited to share this one! This is a Polypanel with an LED Strip built right in, making it easy to add light to your designs. Requires some soldering, but with short lengths of wire, it's a breeze. I'm planning to design circular panels that snap onto the frame, giving you a more diffused light or allowing you to pop on an opaque panel if you don't want light coming from both sides. The LED Strip is just a tad too long, so I folded one into the cavity with the power jack. Definitely need to come up with a more elegant solution for that in future versions. I didn't actually solder the wires to the LED Strip because I found I could push the power jack into the slot and the wires would press against the contacts on the strip (see images). You can also solder them if you prefer. The support material inside the power jack cavity is pretty fragile, so be careful when breaking it out. If you try to release the top and bottom from print then push the support material with a flat pencil toward the inside of the hexagon, it's relatively easy to break it out.