Akane - Suspended String Lamp

Akane – Neural Warden of the Carbon Alliance
 

Akane is one of the Carbon Alliance’s most unsettling specialists, a bio-warfare operative trained to fight from the inside out. Rather than commanding machines, she infiltrates living mega-organisms engineered or captured from The Threat, turning the enemy’s own biology into a weapon. What appears to be long, flowing hair is in fact a dense array of neural interface nodes, each filament capable of penetrating organic tissue and establishing direct synaptic control. Once embedded, Akane can hijack motor functions, redirect aggression, or force catastrophic self-termination with surgical precision.

 

Quiet and clinical, Akane views warfare as a matter of systems and signals rather than ideology. On the battlefield she is rarely seen directly, her presence revealed only when massive creatures suddenly change behavior, moving with an eerie, deliberate intelligence. Within the Alliance she is both respected and feared, a reminder that in the war for survival, even life itself can become a controllable asset.

Assembly:


Try not to use the Super Tack plate, taking the print off may damage the strings. When you finish printing, LET IT COOL! If you try to pull it off while it is hot, the strings will bend. This is especially true with this model, the body is very thin and fragile, the plate needs to be cold and the print will pop off without issues.


Most models with strings only use a single 0.24 layer high string, I use two. That way, if one fails, the other usually does not. There are other variations on the way, such as AMS painted, strings different color and support for the lamp and waterproof pucks.  But, you also need to have proper adhesion, clean your plate and watch the print so you get the best results possible.

To light it you will need the standard 3AAA RGBW pucks from bambu lab, two in total.

Relatively simple, assemble the two halves using an assembly jig in the profile, it is basically two rings that will fit exactly to the two halves, just make sure you put a paper down so the glue doesn't leak and ruin your table (ask me how I know). There are nubs in the provided bases and it will keep it in place for a desktop stand, but carrying it around without gluing it, is not advised… if you are happy with it and do not wish to reuse the base for my other models, go ahead and glue it.


Also, DO NOT change layer size because then the strings may fail.  Any issues, let me know.