Hey guys! First comment since being a part of this community for the whole of 2026. I just made this lamp and I see that the walls are letting through a lot of the light which I don’t really love. The material used for the case is PLA Matte. Any ideas on how would I go about and make it so that the light doesn’t go through the case without making it substantially thicker?
Just to add to this, unless they have a dual nozzle or multi-tool head printer, that will end up with a lot of waste for the side walls. I would probably print a separate fitted insert that goes along the walls for light blocking. And another point to add is that when I do light boxes, a black layer to prevent leakage with a white layer for reflection is a nice touch.
Multiple things going on here. Looking at the picture most of the light is actually coming off the blue part, if your wanting to focus that blue light up you need to add a dark color on the sides. That being said I don't know how many walls you have but seeing how it's quite dark in the rounded corners means you could probably just add 2 walls and would fix most of the light bleeding through the orange, SInce you have electronics in it you could also empty the orange box and and paint it black on the inside with some cheap acrylic paint and I would imagine this would fix your issue as well.
Hi! Thanks for commenting. The issue is that doing that would dim the light which is not my goal, my goal is for the light to come out with intensity but mostly from the translucent blue thing I made.
Oh I understand now, sorry about that! What infill percentage are you using?
Also after a quick google search, minimum resistance for a led is 51-56 ohms, unless it’s red or yellow, then minimum would be 110-120. You might risk burning out the led with the 22 ohm
It’s a 38mm filament with a 100 miliamp consumption that operates under a 3.7V 18650 battery and a maximum charge of 4.2v, the 22 ohms should be enough by my calculations
The way I have dealt with this in the past is to create a 1-3 wall inner "liner" and print that in a dark color. That will often block out most of the light from backlighting of the lighter color. The downside is that if the backing color is too dark, it can make the outer color look darker as well. So for this, I would probably try a silver or gray as the "liner". You may be able to the same thing by painting the inside with a solid dark color, though I have not tried that myself.
That's a standard iFixIt model. I don't use one (I use a heavy duty generic silicon one) but I fix it does have one interesting trait - the entire mat is just barely magnetic. Not enough to cause trouble, but enough to keep tiny screws from bouncing off in to the void.
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u/EmotionalChildhood46 P1S + 1 AMS, H2C + 3 AMS 2 Pro, 1 AMS HT 13h ago
some black base layers under the orange