Lola Sign Light

Bit of a niche one this!

Back in November I designed some decorative stars using little battery operated 20 LED light sets. But I accidentally bought a 25 LED set by mistake, and it had too many LEDs to fit! Rather than waste it, I decided to use it to make a name sign for my granddaughter (bet ya can't guess what her name is!!). I decided to go big with it, and this is the result.

It slides together easily, and is all retained in place with hollow locking pins that slide in (but still allow the cables to be routed to each individual letter). It's fairly solid, as is, but I made sure to use plenty of cynoacrylate glue too, because I wanted it to be strong enough for rough handling by a lively four year old.

After experimenting with a few small test pieces, I found I had issues with "elephant's foot" interfering with the joining of the parts. To counter this I chamfered the the backs of the letters on the print files. This reduced the "elephant's foot" enough so that it was no