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I repurposed the lightning element of an Ikea Solvinden lantern to fit a custom lamp shade. The lamp was created with OpenScad with a ton of customization options :D Printed with yellow Prusament PETG
That shit's cool! Is this open source?
Soon to be - I need to clean up the script a bit, improve documentation and the post it to printables. I'll let you guys know ^^
Oooh, that's really cool!
It might be interesting to make a variant with straight lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid_structure
That would be indeed interesting - goes onto my pile of things I want to do :D Thank you!
I just printed this one 80mm tall. I need to fix the stringing:
$fn = 10;
// small
/*
radius = 15;
height = 40;
thickness = 1;
*/
// how much can I scale this before thickness=1 fails?
// this one is a bit wobbly, probably near the practical limit.
radius = 15*2;
height = 40*2;
thickness = 1;
num_lines = 12;
rotation_angle = 180/num_lines*9;
module draw_line(i, rotation_angle) {
angle = 360 * i / num_lines;
bottom_x = radius * cos(angle);
bottom_y = radius * sin(angle);
top_x = radius * cos(angle + rotation_angle);
top_y = radius * sin(angle + rotation_angle);
hull() {
translate([bottom_x, bottom_y, 0])
linear_extrude(0.1) circle(d=thickness);
translate([top_x, top_y, height])
sphere(d=thickness);
}
}
for(i = [0 : num_lines - 1]) {
draw_line(i, rotation_angle);
draw_line(i, -rotation_angle);
}
linear_extrude(0.6)
difference() {
$fn = 50;
circle(radius * 1.1);
circle(radius / 1.1);
}