Marco ArmentFeb 22

I've really gotten into 3D printing since our family got an awesome Bambu printer last fall.

I find SO many household problems that can be solved, or projects that can be done better, by quickly making little custom parts like these.

What are they? Doesn't matter!* They printed in 5 minutes and helped me with a project. (And I'm still making all of my custom models in TinkerCAD, a web app designed for children, because it's so fast and easy.)

* installing some custom cove lights in my office

Show threadMarco ArmentFeb 23

And this is what those 3D-printed brackets enabled: finally, some soft, indirect cove lighting in my office.

I adhered two parallel LED strips (Waveform dim-to-warm, of course!) to 20mm-wide aluminum strips.

The rectangle pieces perfectly aligned the aluminum strips during assembly.

The long bracket with the triangles rests in the triangular channel created by the moulding, and props up the LEDs at an ideal angle to bounce off the ceiling without being directly visible to people in the room.

Show threadMoritz DietzFeb 23
@marcoarment this needs a diffusor on top
Show threadMarco Arment
@moritzdietz It really doesn’t. The ceiling diffuses it so well that it looks continuous, and adding one to the strips (even if I could find a 20mm-wide one) would just trap more heat and reduce light output.
Feb 23 at 1:18pmIvory for iOS
Show threadMoritz DietzFeb 23
@marcoarment Ah nice! Yes, I was wondering if the photo did it justice in terms of looking not continuously distributed. At work we have these huge hallways with amazing lighting and I always wished I had these at home too.