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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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