3D Printed Instructables Robot With Hidden Rechargeable Emergency Lamp

Hello readers, in this project im very much excited to tell you all about the instructables robot that i have build.

To begin with let me quickly tell you what robot actually means, it is something that is useful to us humankind in one or the either way.

Keeping this in mind and the instructables robot i wanted to build something that is actually useful to some way not just a mere 3d printed static robot.

One of the most useful thing that everybody needs on day or day or in most of the situations is a lamp or the emergency light.

So I integrated lamp on this instructables robot, and to my surprise the robot has a dedictaed place where i can hide the led but still make this to work as a lamp.

Not just a lamp but a rechargeable lamp with 1W air suspended LED so that it does not need any additional things for cooling to happen.

The head can be rotated and the lid for the led area can be opened and closed without any hassle since we are using press fit kind of mechansim.

Almost all the parts are 3d printed only you need is the electronics and the craft supplies.

I will keept it clear and simple so that anybody who is willing to build this can actually build this without any issues.

These are the materials that you need to make this robot and most of them are easily available in electronics hobby shops

1W Led

On/Off switch

TP-4056 charging module

Li-Po battery

Wires

Soldering Iron and Lead

Super Glue

Red and yellow paint

Paint Brush

Black Marker

3D Printer

Cura Slicer

PLA Filament

These are the designs of the parts that makes up this robot, If you are willing to build this project directly use the design files below

You are also free to use my design and make customisation as per your taste.

There are total of 6 parts that needs to be printed.

Since i thought printing in place would arise a lot of problems while adding the electronics i preferred to print the parts individually and assemble them later together.

As you can see on the above steps images all the parts are designed so as to resemble almost like the instructables robot.

You can open the design in TinkerCAD and make any further changes as you wish.

Well if you dont want to and think what i have done so far is the best simply export this design to the slicer and slice the model.

I will start by slicing the head part of the robot, follow the settings that i used at the time of slicing to get a great print.

The choice of color should be either yellow or white, even though if it is yellow or white extra working should be done to finish the robot.

I printed in yellow and white color, i will later paint them to get the required shade.

You can follow the settings for the given model from the cura slicer settings screen that i used at the time of printing.

I preferred to print the parts one by one since any issues at the time of mass printing will cause wastage of time and filaments.

It took me around 4 hours to get all the parts printed.

The speed of printing is dependent on may factors like the scale of print and the printer that you use and also the print speed.

I chose default method and that was the time that i was able to get.

The circuit is very basic for this project all you need to do is a simple on and of circuit and to have a backup i will use charger also.

TP-4056 charging module was used to charge the battery, and Li-Po battery serves as best for this project because of its size.

On the charging module the pins are named, start by soldering the battery to the charge module first.

Later solder the LED to the output side of the board and between the positive wire add the switch,

Soldering was done to all the pins and in the end i got a good circuit by which i can also control my led and also recharge the battery.

Since we have the size concern i chose to use lipo instead of 18650 battery.

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After i got all the models printed i wanted to show you the quality that i have got and you can see them.

In some cases you may see the web like structure on printed parts, nothing to worry remove them manually.

On this step images you can see all the 6 parts that i printed.

Few may be wondering why have you printed in different colors? you could haver used a single color.

Matter of fact my yellow filament ran out at the time of print and the order took around a week to arrive so i used white pla filament.

Anyways the color of filement is not a matter here, All that matters is how you will work on these parts later and i will show it how in the next step

I have colored all the parts with yellow and i hand painted with paint brush and it will take a while.

If needed you can use double coat also, After the yellow paint is dry you can use red to give details to the parts like in the arms and the head parts.

In the third image you can see the details that i got after i used red paint, and later i gave additonal details with black marker and the parts now became very attractive.

Allow all the parts to dry fully and after it is dry install the electronics that we just made.

The LED is hovered in the center on the air and the 2 wires are glued to the inside of 3d printed body.

By doing this no matter how long you use the lamp it wont affect the parts inside.

Now start by gluing the legs and the mid body and after that add the arms and the head lid.

After all this is done attach the head, The best part is that the head is rotatable and you can adjust accordingly.

Using this is very fun and also to be frank pretty much exciting.

I cant wait to show this to my friends and it will be my desktop buddy all the time, whenever i want to use it as a robot i can do that and also as a lamp.

I suggest charging the battery first and then remove the charger.

Now open the lid from the robot and press the switch given at the back of the robot, the led is powerful enough to illuminate light to decent areas.

If you lost something on the desk at night you can use this robot.

After using this again put the lid back and now our instructables robot serves as a static object on the table.

Hope you enjoyed the process of building and to give you more info on the build and the working there is a video also.

If you have any questions on the build let me know in the comments, have a great instructables robot build! Thank you