Fiber optic LED lamp

Over first quarter I made a fiber optic LED lamp. I did this by 3D printing a base, frame, and a cover that a found online. I first printed the frame and cover using the big green 3D printer, and then it broke, so I had to print the base on the tiny orange printer (which ended up not mattering all that much because I had to redesign it to fit an RPi Pico instead of the Arduino microcontroller it was designed for.) After two failed attempts at printing the base, the third one finally worked and I was able to begin assembly.

The first thing I did was make sure it all fit, which it didn’t, so I used some sandpaper and made it fit. Then I soldered together an LED strip and wired it through the frame and into the base, After that, I soldered the LEDs to the RPi Pico and ran a test code to make sure everything worked.

I glued the LEDs into the frame and lined them up with the holes for the fiber optics, I also screwed in the RPi and put some code on it that made it colorful. Finally I took a 5000x3mm fiber optic cable and cut it into random lengths to fit into the holes at different angles, and then it was done.

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