lampscape 🔆

Lampscape is a sandcasted and 3D printed lamp with fully programmable RGBW LEDs. I created this during winter quarter 2022 as my final project for Stanford's ME 203: Design and Manufacturing class.

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Code

This repository is primarily for the code running on the lamp's Arduino Metro Mini. Instructions for use:

1. Install platformio with pip install -U platformio. Alternate install options here.
2. Clone the repository, navigate inside, and run pio run, which compiles the code.
3. Upload to device with pio run -t upload

Electronics

Lampscape uses an Arduino Metro Mini as a mircocontroller. The lighting used is an RGBW LED strip from Adafruit. I strongly recommend warm white LEDs only as they make for much more pleasant lighting. For lighting control, I used two metal pushbuttons from adafruit, one latching (power on/off) and one momentary (for changing color profiles).

CAD Files & 3D Printing

I used fuison 360 to create both the base and lampshade. The files can be found here:

• Base
• Lampshade

The lampshade was 3D printed using Form Lab's white resin. The lamp shade thickness is 0.05 inches with the wave grooves being about 50% thicker.

The base was printed with standard PLA filament. I then heavily sanded it, applied Bondo & sanded it again (for smoothness), and then applied a thin layer of Shellac before using it as a sandcasting pattern.