Steampunk LED Color Mixer Lamp

by BadJer Maker in Circuits > Gadgets

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Steampunk LED Color Mixer Lamp

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I decided to make an artist friend of mine a LED lamp that can mix colors and have USB charging port for their phone.  Basically it is a steampunk insulator night light that uses RGB LEDs.  The top and bottom halves can be independently lit up with RGB or white light, or turned off.

I made the base out of oak strips so I could get a finger joint look.  The copper plates were etched with the laser printer mask method and muriatic acid.  The 5 vdc supply was from an old cell phone charger.

The hard part was cramming a number of LEDs in the top half and bottom half of the copper pipe insulator support.

Stain and plain old carnuba wax finished it all off.