Light it Up

I was instantly inspired by this tweet from my Twitter friend in Madagascar who is always sharing cool projects. I wasn't quite ready to attempt the glowing orb project, but I was eager to explore the TinkerCad assemblies that were mentioned. So I got to work and checked out the options in TinkerCad.

Step 1:

I simply printed a "Glow" assembly from the Circuit collection in TinkerCad

Step 2

I tested it out. Worked like a charm.

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Step 3

I jumped on into TinkerCad and made myself a little house. It seemed like the right thing to start with.

Step 4

Once it was printed I lit it up. It was easy to put together and quite satisfying to see the soft glow of the yellow light inside the house. I actually didn't notice that the structure was already hollow until I added the"Glow Cutout" when I made it in TinkerCad. It didn't really matter, just meant that the assembly didn't fit quite as tight as it might otherwise.

Also, I didn't quite get the cut out above the front door right. It was supposed to be an open window, but it ended up not going all the way thru and being translucent instead, which is probably actually better. Happy accidents are awesome.

The whole project took me about an hour probably start to finish. Well, it took about 30 minutes to print the assembly and 3 hours to print the house. But actually engaged working time was only about an hour for designing, construction and testing.

During my construction process, I realized that it would be pretty cool to create a lighthouse with a working light. So I'm headed back over to TinkerCad to see what I can do.

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