Steampunk Lamp Number 2 (Lighthouse styled)

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First off, WARNING! Flashy lights in this video - if you're subject to seizures from flashing lights, don't watch!

This is another steampunk-inspired lamp, made to look similar to a lighthouse. Instead of using Neopixels, though, I'm using the newer Adafruit DOT pixels (Same price, but use SPI - so interrupt friendly).

Basically, when my friend (from the other video) asked me to build that lamp, I got to wondering just what a "steampunk lamp" actually looks like. I mean, yeah, just google it, and you see light bulbs on metal pipes. Mostly unoriginal, I feel. So I started looking at steampunk comics I read, and was unable to find an electric lamp.. They're still using candles, FGS! And rooms just seem to have wonderful ambient lighting with no source! Argh!

So a trip to the Lyceum Museum in Alexandria, VA inspired me with Fresnel lenses from old lighthouses...

The thing is primarily 3D printed, with "Rub and Buff" used to give it color. The original software was prototyped on an Arduino Uno, and then ported over to a bare-bones ATMega328PB for final product.

PCB's were designed in Altium's Circuitmaker, and fabbed (just the boards, I did the assembly) in China through AllPCB. (good prices, decent boards (they seem to have got the layers inverted, though. But hey, what do you expect for $20 for 10 boards with 1 week turn?)

Video of the other lamp here: https://youtu.be/h7yaBWMFLlM