USB Christmas star - No Glue + LED holes
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Published on December 24, 2012
This thing was Featured on December 25, 2012
Derived from
Christmas Star
by PaulM
Description
Just a quick mash-up in OpenSCAD of Paul Murrin's excellent star to enable me to join the pieces together without glue and insert LEDs into the points
I printed this with %0 fill, 3 shells at 0.2mm layer height, 120mm/s travel on a Replicator2 in natural PLA. Each point takes about an hour.
I printed this with %0 fill, 3 shells at 0.2mm layer height, 120mm/s travel on a Replicator2 in natural PLA. Each point takes about an hour.
Instructions
Print 11 points, 1 base, 25 connectors.
Get one cheap (2.99) set of USB 20 LED fairy lights like these:
lights4fun.co.uk/i/q/USB-04-W/20-led-white-usb-fairy-lights-19m-length
Insert an LED into each point as you push the connectors between the points.
Finish by inserting the 8 spare LEDs into the cavity and then push the base into place making sure you place the cable in the slot.
If you want to modify the SCAD file, you will need to download Paul's original STL file.
Get one cheap (2.99) set of USB 20 LED fairy lights like these:
lights4fun.co.uk/i/q/USB-04-W/20-led-white-usb-fairy-lights-19m-length
Insert an LED into each point as you push the connectors between the points.
Finish by inserting the 8 spare LEDs into the cavity and then push the base into place making sure you place the cable in the slot.
If you want to modify the SCAD file, you will need to download Paul's original STL file.
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License
USB Christmas star - No Glue + LED holes by MakeALot is licensed under the Attribution - Creative Commons license.
Nice mod. It was admired by many over Christmas.
I fiddled around with tabs etc to try to hold it all together, but couldn't get it to work. Didn't think of separate connectors -I'm new to this lot :-)
Thanks. My wife loves the model, all I did was make it simpler for myself. I'm told that I'm making more for next Christmas. I also thought of making tabs, but didn't think it would work, so I just make connectors that push in. You did all the hard work, I just hacked. I look forward to your next inspiration :-)