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Element light

by lancasm
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I was in Ikea one Saturday with the intention of buying one specific item and, as always happens there, I saw something else that made me think "I wonder what I can do with that".

In this case it was the Vattensten LED light strip (https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/vattensten-led-lighting-strip-white-60530596), which was being sold for just a fiver, so I picked one up. It's a USB powered LED strip about 100cm long with a self-adhesive backing.

I eventually decided to try and use it as part of a wall light, so I set about putting together a design in Blender. I didn't want the LEDs to shine directly into the room, as this can be a bit harsh, so instead decided to bounce the light off a white reflector to give a much gentler effect.

The holder for the LED strip ended up looking like a heating element, so the thing now had a name.

I printed the parts using black PLA for the element, and white for the reflector. They were printed on an Ender-3 S1 Plus which has a 30cm bed, but I sti
Source
Thingiverse
What you need to print this: Intermediate Low confidence
Single piece
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
Gluing
Software
Cura, PrusaSlicer, or similar
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