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#592 Snowflake Lamp

Finding a new home for some @LuckyResistor Snow Flake boards in a lamp stand.

Build

Notes

I’m in the process of unpacking after a rennovation and I discovered some long-forgotten Snowflake decorations designed by @LuckyResistor who I got to know through the Boldport Club - see LEAP#355 Snow Flake for my original build.

While wondering what I might do with them, I unpacked an old horse-scultpure lamp and found my answer!

This is a simple build (my workbench is not quite back in action yet!) where I basically:

  • removed the original AC-powered lamp
  • re-wire with a CR2032 battery and switch on the side of the lamp
  • hang the 4 snowflakes in the lamp

Construction

Breadboard

Schematic

Battery is on a small piece of protoboard in the base of the lamp:

power_installation

lamp_build_1

lamp_build_2

Credits and References

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LEAP is just my personal collection of projects. Two main themes have emerged in recent years, sometimes combined:

  • electronics - usually involving an Arduino or other microprocessor in one way or another. Some are full-blown projects, while many are trivial breadboard experiments, intended to learn and explore something interesting
  • scale modelling - I caught the bug after deciding to build a Harrier during covid to demonstrate an electronic jet engine simulation. Let the fun begin..
To be honest, I haven't quite figured out if these two interests belong in the same GitHub repo or not. But for now - they are all here!

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