Icosahedron Desk Light by dmich9

Last crawled date: 3 years, 4 months ago

ALL STL FILES WERE MODELED IN AUTOCAD AND NEED TO BE SCALED UP IN YOUR SLICER. I RECCOMEND SCALING THE OBJECT TO AROUND 2540%. THIS MAKES THE BASE ROUGHLY 8x8 INCHES.
For the PLA, I used ESUN Black and Gray, found here:https://www.amazon.com/eSUN-1-75mm-Printer-Filament-Colors/dp/B07K642RQPhttps://www.amazon.com/eSUN-1-75mm-Printer-Filament-2-2lbs/dp/B01EKEMUEK
A also used SUNLU brand transparent filament for the tiny triangular panels.https://www.amazon.com/SUNLU-Filament-Transparent-Dimensional-Accuracy/dp/B07ZNG4L9P/
This is an Icosahedron Light for a desk. Other than a 3d printer, you'll need a power supply (5 volts probably) and corresponding LED lights.
Assembly Instructions
Print the ICO Main Base
Print the arms. I'd recommend printing ICO Full Arm 5 times and painting accordingly. If you want, you can print 5 ICO Bendy Connectors, 5 ICO Complicated Spiders, and 10 ICO Pentagonal Connectors. However, this means that there might be inaccuracies that can add up.
Print an ICO Middle Light Support
Print the following: ICO Top, Middle, and Bottom Panel Assemblies. For these 3 parts, you'll need to print the corresponding triangle parts.
This is the hardest part. You'll need to put all of the tiny triangles into their corresponding holes. You may need to sand down the edges to get them to fit correctly. For the middle panels, make sure you alternate. 4 Panels with no indent, than 4 panels with a triangle indent. I'd also recommend using a sort of glue to keep the triangles in place. Just be careful with superglue, as it can whiten PLA parts. This step took me about an hour.
Once all 3 of the panel assemblies have their small triangles in place, you can superglue the arms to the middle panel. Make sure that they are oriented correctly. When the middle panel assembly is right side UP, the 5 panels with triangular indented triangles should face DOWN. Use the triangular indents to match up the arms and orient them correctly. On the same side the arms protrude from, glue the bottom panel assembly. At this point in construction, you should only have 4 pieces: The middle/bottom panel assembly with the arms glued on, the top panel assembly, the main base, and the middle panel support.
Glue the middle/bottom panel assembly to the base. To do so, match up the bottom of the arms with the corresponding protrusions on the man base. They are on 5 pedestals equally spaced around the base.
Wrap your LEDs around the middle light support. I'd recommend wrapping some on the top as well, to make sure that no panels are dull when the lights are illuminated. There is an order to this, though. You need to make sure that the wire goes through the main base and the middle light support BEFORE you wrap the lights. That way, when you glue the middle light support to the middle of the base, there is no extraneous wire. The base has a slot on the bottom for a wire to run through, that way it doesn't sit unevenly.
Once that's all glued, you're done! You can glue the top panel assembly to the top part of the middle panel assembly if you want too. I left it as a friction fit in case I needed to access the lights inside.
If there are any unclear instructions, please tell me.
If anyone does actually make this, I'd love to see it!