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The Penguin Lamp project is almost done. Just electricity, automation and two name plates (Kowalski and Private). The goal is to get that done in the next two weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I spun on design ideas for Private for several months. Eventually, I decided on a lamp with some type of translucent umbrellas. I took several missteps on the umbrellas. I did some 3D design and printing. Then I thought I would try to make my first mold and resin poor with nothing looking as I wanted (the resin looked horrible, but I think I could have solved those issues). I ended up thinking I could take actual cocktail umbrellas (the original inspiration) and coat them in clear resin. So, I bought a lot, and applied several coats of resin with a brush and hit them with a UV Led light. It was a fairly involved production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m not thrilled with my mounting solution. I designed a little disk that could be hot melted onto the toothpick. At a minimum I should have painted them brown, but the mounting needed to be a bit more discrete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all the challenges with the lamp, I also had issues figuring out the stage. It one point, I considered hanging him and the lamp being a parachute. I ended up finding a commercial 3D model of a carousel. My first plan was to take the base and slice everything off, but the model was already cut apart and had the bottom in four pieces with a hole in the center. But, the top part of the carousel, with the flag, was a round piece. With some resizing, I made it fit. Printed, glued and painted. I think it looks pretty good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like Kowalski, I suspended the stage with wire. This, I believe is a bad idea. Getting the lengths right is difficult. And, I’m not convinced they’ll hold. The penguins are also top heavy, so they can flip over. I suspect after some wind, I’ll find them upside down. When I do the name tags, I might try to add some weight at the bottom. For now, I’ll lot time and mother nature point out whether or not it is enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you can see from the photos, I’ve also started mounting the lamps on the patio. They are all up, no power yet. I have a plan for that and just need to spend some time going up and down a ladder to get it done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Penguin Lamp project is almost done. Just electricity, automation and two name plates (Kowalski and Private). The goal is to get that done in the next two weeks. I spun on design ideas for Private for several months. Eventually, I decided on a lamp with some type of translucentRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-incharge","post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-progressreports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t