3d printed led redstone lamp

This device utilizes a special magnetic switch (reed switch) to open and close the LED circuit when it is close to a magnet. In a nutshell, the redstone lamp has a small circuit with three magnetic switches, a CR2032 coin cell battery, and two orange LEDs. The redstone block has a hunk of neodymium magnets inside of it to close the switches in the redstone lamp when they are close to each other.

3d Design in Tinkercad

Creating the STL files in TinkerCAD took a long time. In order to get the black part that goes around the glowing middle, I had to draw the design in Adobe Illustrator and then import the SVG file into TinkerCAD, where I could extrude the flat shape into a 3D shape. To build the edges of the black box, I just duplicated one side and rotated it into place, then did that for all sides and the lid.

The magnetic switch holder was by far the biggest challenge in this project. Because I wanted the glowstone block and the red stone block to follow the same rules as they do in Minecraft, I had to use THREE magnetic switches. My first print only turned on when the glowstone was oriented in a certain way. My next attempt had 3 switches, but they were all running the same direction, and the glowstone still had to be in a certain position to work. Finally, I figured out that the magnetic switches had to run along all 3 axes (X,Y, and Z).

Inside of the redstone lamp

Mistakes and the things I learned from them

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