Multicolour Star Lamp
Introduction: Multicolour Star Lamp
This lamp is inspired by outer space and space travel.
It is a tinfoil lamp with rocket as a slider switch which when moved from earth to a galaxy switch ons the lamp for a starry display.
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Step 1: Things to Note
✨ Cut the sun-board carefully preferably with a cutter because it has a tendency to crack and break
✨ The led light I am using here is a broken fibre optic lamp so it has a mode button connected to it also, but it does not affect the circuit connection made here using tin foil. If you are going to use separate led lights then you will have to attach resistor accordingly.
✨ See the pictures to better understand the steps.
Step 2: The Materials Required
✨For light I used a broken fibre optic lamp (this lamp also has many light modes)
✨ Sun-board
Used for making the base and slider.
✨ Acrylic paint
✨ Cutter
✨ Super glue
✨ Clear Tape
✨ Tinfoil
Used for making the lamp, switch and connections.
✨ Push Pin
✨ For making circles I used an engineering template
Step 3: the Base
The measurements for the base are in the picture added above. For making the base firstly I traced all the designs carefully on the sun board and then using a cutter cut all the pieces.
Then I painted all the base pieces using metallic black, dark blue, metallic dark blue acrylic paint to resemble night sky.
The circular pieces were painted using different colours the two bigger pieces were to represent earth and space or galaxy and the smaller piece was to represent a rocket.
Step 4: Slider Switch
The measurements for slider is given in the picture.
Firstly I pasted foil on the back of the small circle (rocket) as can be seen in the sixth picture
After cutting the slider cavity from the side wall I used the back piece for slider and traced the cavity and pasted tin foil on both ends of the traced cavity (as can be seen in pictures left side foil is single piece and right side are two pieces ). Make sure to leave extra foil on both the foil pieces on right side. 31
Here the left side foil is just symmetry.
In the next step we will know how the foil pasted on the circle and slider cavity are used.
Step 5: The Connections
As it can be seen in the pictures the foil on the right side is not a single piece instead two pieces, this is because this will be part of the led circuit which will be an open circuit. The mechanism behind the slider switch here is that the Rocket (small circle) has foil on the back and when it is moved from left to the right it touches both pieces of foil completing the circuit.
The circuit connections are simple as seen in the picture a strip of foil is taped to one side of battery box and another strip is taped to the led wire. Now the battery box strip is then connected to the lower foil piece on the right side and similarly the led foil strip is connected to the top foil piece.
Now when all the connections are complete we will stick the back piece for slider to the slider face, but make sure you stick the sides of the back piece only and not the top and bottom because from the top we will insert the small circle (rocket) and it needs space for sliding.
It will be easier to understand by seeing the pictures.
Step 6: The Foil Lamp
The foil lamp is just a simple cube of foil for more stability I have folded a single sheet of foil for double layer and then traced the design in the picture and cut it. Then I used a push pin to make stars on all 5 sides of the foil cube and finally folded it into a cube and pasted all the sides from inside using clear tape so that it becomes sturdy .
Step 7: Assembly of the Base and Lamp
This was a little tricky to stick all the sides to the bottom side so it is good use some help 😅 !
Firstly I super glued all the four sides to each other at an angle (see picture to understand) then again super glued the sides to the bottom side, glued earth and galaxy to slider side and then glued the top.
If all the measurements are right it should look like that in the picture. After this the only part left is to put the foil lamp on the top above the cavity and the lamp is complete! 🙂
Step 8: End Result 😃
If you have any doubts feel free to ask me 🙂 259