It is my first instructable.
I am going to show you how I use 2L Milk Carton bottles as my raw material to construct my own IQ Lamp.
What you need
* a pair of sharp scissors
* a sharp cutter
* sticky tape
* 2L Plastic Milk Bottles (lots of them)
* access to computer and printer (for printing the template)
* LED Light (Christmas decoration light on a string or Changing Colour LED Keyring)
I have been inspired by other authors from the INSTRUCTABLE website to construct my own IQ Lamp using plastic sheets.
I actually have ordered an IQ Lamp from eBay and noticed that the material was not as thick and robust as I have thought. I reckon the commonly available 2Litre Milk Plastic Bottles would be a good source and good fit as the raw material for this project. There are plentiful of supply of such plastic milk bottles from work.
Other authors have suggested to use exacto cutter to cut out the shape of the building plate. I reckon I can get away and probably easier by using a pair of scissors to cut them out. The next challenge is how to transfer the cut out template onto the raw material, the plastic bottle sheet that repel normal marker ink.
Instead of marking directly onto the sheet of plastic, mounting the printed paper template onto the plastic sheet is the way to go. I use Microsoft Powerpoint to adjust the size of my template jpg file (I provide such file for your reference) while maintain the same aspect ratio. I then print out them out as handout print of 2 slides per page. The size is roughly the suitable fit onto the raw material of plastic sheet I salvaged from the 2L Milk Carton. There are stickers on 2 of the 4 side of the plastic bottle. So I can only get 2 blank sides per each milk carton. I just use sticky tape to tape down the 4 sides of the cutoff template print out onto the plastic. The cutting do not need to be that precise and using scissors to cut them out should be good enough for the purpose. The most difficult part in cutting out is the hooks as each plate got 4 hooks. You need to use the scissors skilfully and twist and turn to cut out the hooks.
As for the light source, the safest is to use LED because of low power and low heat. All I do is to wrap a string of Christmas light around a stress ball and use rubber band to secure them onto the stress ball as the leds string finishes. The wire just take it out from one of the 5 plates joint and it will hang the stress ball with all the LEDs around it at the centre of the IQ Lamp light shade. You just need to adjust at which point of the wire you want the 5 hooks joint to grip the wire. I also tried it on with a changing colour LED keyring. The result is amazing. I have a colour changing light feature.
It is not rocket science and anyone who puts his/her heart to it can do it and repurpose the recycle milk carton into something beautiful. All you need is time and patience. Vola. Enjoy.
I am going to show you how I use 2L Milk Carton bottles as my raw material to construct my own IQ Lamp.
What you need
* a pair of sharp scissors
* a sharp cutter
* sticky tape
* 2L Plastic Milk Bottles (lots of them)
* access to computer and printer (for printing the template)
* LED Light (Christmas decoration light on a string or Changing Colour LED Keyring)
I have been inspired by other authors from the INSTRUCTABLE website to construct my own IQ Lamp using plastic sheets.
I actually have ordered an IQ Lamp from eBay and noticed that the material was not as thick and robust as I have thought. I reckon the commonly available 2Litre Milk Plastic Bottles would be a good source and good fit as the raw material for this project. There are plentiful of supply of such plastic milk bottles from work.
Other authors have suggested to use exacto cutter to cut out the shape of the building plate. I reckon I can get away and probably easier by using a pair of scissors to cut them out. The next challenge is how to transfer the cut out template onto the raw material, the plastic bottle sheet that repel normal marker ink.
Instead of marking directly onto the sheet of plastic, mounting the printed paper template onto the plastic sheet is the way to go. I use Microsoft Powerpoint to adjust the size of my template jpg file (I provide such file for your reference) while maintain the same aspect ratio. I then print out them out as handout print of 2 slides per page. The size is roughly the suitable fit onto the raw material of plastic sheet I salvaged from the 2L Milk Carton. There are stickers on 2 of the 4 side of the plastic bottle. So I can only get 2 blank sides per each milk carton. I just use sticky tape to tape down the 4 sides of the cutoff template print out onto the plastic. The cutting do not need to be that precise and using scissors to cut them out should be good enough for the purpose. The most difficult part in cutting out is the hooks as each plate got 4 hooks. You need to use the scissors skilfully and twist and turn to cut out the hooks.
As for the light source, the safest is to use LED because of low power and low heat. All I do is to wrap a string of Christmas light around a stress ball and use rubber band to secure them onto the stress ball as the leds string finishes. The wire just take it out from one of the 5 plates joint and it will hang the stress ball with all the LEDs around it at the centre of the IQ Lamp light shade. You just need to adjust at which point of the wire you want the 5 hooks joint to grip the wire. I also tried it on with a changing colour LED keyring. The result is amazing. I have a colour changing light feature.
It is not rocket science and anyone who puts his/her heart to it can do it and repurpose the recycle milk carton into something beautiful. All you need is time and patience. Vola. Enjoy.
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This is the most comprehensive building instruction web link I have sighted so far over the internet.
Good luck and show some picture of your masterpiece if you will.