Bio Luminaire

This bio luminaire boasts an organic, captivating design that breaks away from conventional geometric shapes. Inspired by the natural world, it seamlessly blends form and function, creating a visually stunning and ergonomically optimized lighting solution.

Supplies

Materials:

Used teabag leaves
Eggshells
All-purpose flower
Egg tray carton
Food coloring
water

Tools:

Bowl
Grinding bowl
Plastic spoon
Paper plate
Stove
pot

Using a pair of scissors, cut 210mm×300mm of thin cardboard and bend it in a shape of a cone as depicted in the image above.

In a bucket, soak two egg carton trays (cut down to smaller pieces) in 1 litre worth of water for about an hour.

Place six eggs worth of eggshells in a grinding bowl and start grinding. Grind eggshells to smaller pieces, the consistency must not be too fine. In a separate bowl, pour the eggshell grind in it. In the eggshell grind bowl, pour ten teabags worth of used teabags leaves in it and start mixing everything together.

Once the egg carton is soaked and soft, take it out and squeeze out any excess water and pour it out in a pot. Pour 250ml of water and put it on medium heat. After 5 minutes, pour the eggshell and teabag leaves mixture in the pot. After another 5 minutes, add 4 cups of flour and mix everything together. After an additional 5 minutes, add five drops of food colouring (colour of your choice) and mix.

One the mixture has cooked for 10 minutes, pour it out in a bowl.

Mould the mixture on the cone cardboard structure (this will be the lamp shade), Mould a 370 mm long stick (this will be the support) and lastly mould a circular base that's about 150mm in diameter.

After leaving the pieces to dry out in the sun for a week, assemble the luminaire. Connect the base and support using bonding glue, make a hole on the lamp shade so that the support can slide into it. Make a groove channel underneath the base so that the electrical wire can sit properly and won't make the lamp uneven when standing.

Finaly, Put in the electrical components.