September 6, 2023
Description
Saturday night football feeling at your desk!
If you are from Germany and a little bit into football, you might notice the reference to the famous stadium lights from Werder Bremen. Even if you don't, you might have stumbled over “Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Fußballs” on TV and noticed the cool desktop lamps he has.
Source: WDR
A friend asked me if I could recreate the look on my 3D printers, so I tried. After one spool of grey filament, I was pleased with the result and grabbed some LEDs and swung my soldering iron. What can I say? I think it's all right for an amateur like me. There is even one moveable part to fine-tune the light.
How to build the lamp?
It's easy enough. First, you need to print the parts. Everything should print fine without support. I recommend keeping the orientation as it is. It might be a little bit counter-intuitive for the connectors, but it prevents the elephant foot from being just on one end which could lead to cracking the parts you connect it with (yep, happened to me). For the light covers you need some transparent filament. Maybe white filament is working too, I didn't try. Please let me know.
Besides the 3D printed parts, you need some other stuff.
Cut the LED stripes to length and solder them together. After you are done, glue them to the light base you printed.
Glue the covers on (don't forget to test first). It depends on your printer, but theoretically, they can just snap on. I used glue, just in case.
Now connect the button as you see in the picture. Overlook the part I tried to make it spin with. Just one bearing won't do the trick and the lamp is so light, you can move it with your pinky anyways. I don't even know why I bothered in the first place. Oh, and you don't need to drill holes for the cables anymore. I updated the design. The base of the lamp is bigger now too, so it fits the buttons nicely.
Have a last try before you glue the transparent covers on the lamp and you are done!
License:
Creative Commons — Attribution — Noncommercial
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