MATERIALS

Workshop Scraps

With only five days to design and build, I picked up some blue acrylic left in the workshop, and cut it to size.

DESIGN GOALS

Simplicity

For convenience, all the pieces I cut had straight edges and divisible dimensions. I then sanded the cut edges to a smooth finish. The acrylic gives the lamp an ethereal neon-blue glow.

With the limited time available, I chose to buy the light fixture. I used a solvent to seamlessly bond the acrylic together.

Simple lock nuts and bolts allowed the scissor mechanism to move freely.