Puzzle lamps

 I have been interested in something that seems to be called IQ puzzle lamps. They are made by fitting together pieces of translucent plastic and placing a bulb inside.

A while back I found a template and some translucent plastic sheets and tried some out.  This would be less time consuming with a laser cutter but armed with a pair of scissors and a craft knife was all that was available to me.




This site has instructions and a template to use.

The model I made pictured above is 120 modules. Instructions for construction are here. It uses the module in both it's backward and forward orientation. 

Using a non transparent plastic I recently made these 30 unit pieces. Where all the modules are orientated the same way round. Pictured here is one where the pieces are 'forward' and one where the pieces are 'backward' so on one model the pieces rotate clockwise and the other model is anticlockwise. 

Instructions for these 30 unit models are here

Another model I have found appears to be called  the Nimbus. I found a post about it here. There is a template there.  I tried making a version with 20 modules of non transparent plastic. 


I have found a different version of the template on

this blog. There is a Dropbox link at the top of the post where templates and video instructions are. 

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