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Hedra Lightshader

Hedra Lightshader
   Hedra Lightshader is originally designed with 3d studio max and opened with pepakura designer. You may ask why this lightshader's name is hedra instead of triangle or sphere. Its hedra becouse it was modeled using hedra primitive and the core part (without big triangles)is kinda hedra.
   This was a school project of mine for this term.
  The main point of this project was create a D.I.Y furniture and instruct people how to do that.
  The majority of the lightshader is made of 100gr bristol and 300 gr craft paper. I love using this stuff to make things It's strong (as a paper) and stable and very easy to cut - and it's made of a renewable resource! You may use it with standard lamps (35w -40w etc) and It is easy to mount on a holder 
 
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Step 1What we need

What we need

--------Materials -------

100 gr bristol paper 12 (35x50mm) We are usig this paper for printing
300 gr craft paper  12 (35x50mm)
tracing paper  1 (70x100mm)
setsquare
utility knife ( you can use scissors but u can live problems if u cannot manage to cut properly)
glue - you may prefer quick drying one
Blueprint of the project

Note :The paper size is up to you. It affects only the size of final product but dont change the paper aspect ratio . if u change it, it may not close properly (even not close)





 

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8 comments
Nov 25, 2011. 4:38 PMbreathe.illite says:
This is an extremely confusing tutorial. The file types are not common and, so far, I have been unable to open them after downloading a couple of programs.

What needs to be done? Or, is there a way to use more commonly found file types? It's very aggravating.
Sep 16, 2011. 9:10 AMshuja.shaher says:
sorry to say this
but would you mind letting somebody else write the text for you
sorry again
Sep 21, 2011. 6:01 AMnix78 says:
Says you... At least, he uses proper capital letters and punctuation marks... most of the time. ;)

As for the 'ible, I like the idea, it reminds me one of my former ideas of a small polyhedral moodlight for my desk.

One thing only: the shade is a bit tight, the bulb is a bit close to the paper and since there is no airflow, a 30-40 W incandescent bulb could heat up pretty quickly, potentionally setting the whole thing on fire. I would rather use a compact flourescent lamp or even more so, an RGB LED lamp. Also, one of the big triangle sides could be made of some stronger material and be used to secure the socket for the bulb.
Sep 15, 2011. 5:24 PMflamming arrow says:
wow cool instructable. i was wondering, what programs were you using to model the lamp in steps 3 and 5?
Sep 9, 2011. 4:01 PMjobard says:
The Pepakura file is not valid. It has a different extension
Sep 12, 2011. 4:51 AMjobard says:
10x.
Mar 30, 2011. 4:13 PMChrysN says:
Nice!

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