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Doodalights

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This project came about because I wanted some shelf mounted lights in my projector room.

To facilitate this, I bought some [Ikea Dioders](http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20119418/), and while these work great, the light bleeds out from the shelves on to the projector screen which wasn't the effect I was looking for.

To work around this, I simply cut an A4 sheet of paper in half, folded the halves down the middle and balanced them on the shelves above, thus blocking the light a little.

I had long since considered using a 3D printer to replace these, but having 12 of these strips at 30cm long, I considered this a massive waste of filament.

A friend of mine suggested using aluminium U channel rods which you can get very easily at most hardware stores (I got mine in Brico here in Antwerp). They're sold as 1m lengths which I cut into 3 x 33cm sections (this can be done with a Dremel and a circular saw attachment or similar).

You can get these in various sizes, b
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Intermediate Low confidence
Single piece Hardware needed
Supports 1/3
Assembly 0/3
Settings 1/3
Bed size 0/3
Post-process 1/3
Printer
FDM / FFF
File format
STL
Material
PLA
Post-processing
Hardware
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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