Perflamp1

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I've posted LED lamps with openings of various shapes in them before, but I placed the openings randomly, without any rhyme or reason. Recently, however, I discovered a clever way to make the openings evenly spaced - by mapping a rectangular grid onto the lamp's surface. I applied this method to create this particular lamp. As it turns out, I may have gotten a bit carried away with the design - the 7-pointed star shapes present a significant challenge for any 3D printer: there are numerous areas where stringing can occur, and the tiny star points produce very small/short extrusions that will result in blobs if your extrusion settings aren't precisely calibrated. In essence, this lamp will serve as a true test of any printer's capabilities. Perflamp2, on the other hand, will be smaller and simpler, and significantly easier and quicker to print. This lamp took approximately 26 hours and 15 minutes to complete using a print speed of 80 mm/sec and a layer height of 0.200 mm. This lamp is specifically designed to hold one of several LED lights known as "puck" lights. These lights can be powered by either batteries or wall power. If you're interested in acquiring wall-powered lights that work well, I recommend visiting this blog page: http://birkbinnard.com/blog/wall-powered-led-lights/.