VIBGYOR Night Lamp

As we know, the outside environment can affect our inner emotions, like so by changing our outside environment according to our need, we can also change our inner emotions. For example, if you are feeling romantic light up Red in the room. Or if you want to get motivate, just play any inspirational loud music and you will be motivated instantly and so on. Thus we can change our inside by changing our outside.

So, here I brought this mighty mood changing light. This is not real but this can work on somebody. So, I thought why not build something indoor that can be used with a multi color option so that in can be changed according to the mood. Also i want to stat that, this light is inspired from a dome shaped building situated in a foreign country.

That's why I thought it would be a perfect fit for the "Colors of Rainbow challenge", as it offers a various colors fit into it and change your mood accordingly.

This is a Multi color Desk Lamp should be used as tabletop Night lamp. Its a small sized lamp that is made from many waste and recycled materials. It can be lighten with mini size bulbs of different colors or with a mini RGB bulb.

Hence you can now use seven colors of the Rainbow (like Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange & Red) and decorate your room.

The White sunlight consists of 7 colors which in general calls as VIBGYOR. It is a popular mnemonic device used for memorizing the traditional optical spectrum. VIBGYOR is basically a trick or a way to represent “spectrum of visible rays” in increasing order of wavelength or decreasing order of frequency.

1. Violet
2. Indigo
3. Blue
4. Green
5. Yellow
6. Orange
7. Red

This abbreviation is used just to remember the complete combination of lights in a sequence as it is in a way it is. ROYGBIV is the exact reverse of VIBGYOR, the sequence of hues commonly ascribed to rainbows.

Hence I designed my lamp to be capable of glowing all the 7 different colors and thus you can see the result.

For the making purpose I used the following tools and some waste & recycled materials, so that it can be a budget friendly lamp. It is not mandatory to use all these following materials, you can select which suits your budget and as your decorating purpose.

As instead of Sun-board sheets you can use thin wooden sheets or plywood or in place of broom sticks you can use wooden sticks and son on. So, my purpose is to show how to make this beautiful lamp with some waste materials that can deliver you a colorful home decor item as well as a mood swing device.

Materials Required:

• Sun-board sheet
• Thermocol
• Paper (white, blue, brown)
• Broom sticks
• Plastic bottle (cylindrical)
• Plywood piece (2mm)
• Bulb holder
• Multi-color bulbs (RGB bulb)
• Old bulb cover
• Aluminium wire
• Heat-shrink tube
• Jumper connectors
• Some wires
• Male plug
• Fevicol glue
• Super glue
• Tape

Tools Required:

• Pen cutter
• Knife
• Plier
• Compass
• Marker
• Soldier
• Scissor
• Lighter

So, now let's move onto the making process.

The making is very simple, the pictures I attached will finely guide you throughout the whole process. So, I don't need to explain a lot, the pictures of each step is self explanatory. I will just shortly guide you through all steps.

The first things first, as like a building we will first build our base that will hold everything on it, like the body, pillars, bulb holder, connections and all.

I made the base using Thermocol and Sun-board sheets. I made few circles with drawing compass and sketch pen and cut them with my pen cutter. I made 2-3 layers to be heavy and get a stair like design.

Also I kept a small opening in the middle so that our bulb holder can pass through and made a space in the back for placing the holder plate. Then I glued the Sun-board circular plate to the Thermocol base using wood glue (Fevicol).

Next I made a Ring-plate with Sun-board sheet and made few holes in it (each about 1.5 cm away) so that our Pillars can be fitted there in future. Then I glued the Ring-plate at outer edge of the plate.

For the bulb to sit, I used 2mm Plywood piece and cut in a circle. I made 2 holes in there and fixed my holder with the help of 2 screws. I also attached a couple wires by fixing on the screws so that it can be used to set our female connector.

I soldiered a pair of female Berg strip connector to the wires as a input port, so that we can connect our power supply in future.

Then I glued the whole assembly to the bottom of another Circular-base-plate by using wood glue (Fevicol). Then add a second layer of base plate & keep spaces for wires and the Connector to fit.

Now both our Base-plate and Holder-plate are ready. So, we will just put them together and and fix them with some wood glue (fevicol).

Hence, our Base is ready now for mounting the various other parts. Let's jump into the making of other parts now.

As buildings have wall, we will have a covering for our bulb here. This covering will act as a Diffuser for our lamp and scatter our lights evenly.

For the making, I used an empty plastic bottle and some white paper. First cut the bottle in the height of the lamp, (holder+bulb height) and made a cylinder. Then I cut a piece of cardboard and sun-board sheet and made a hole in middle for inserting our holder. Next glue the pieces together to one end of the cylinder by using super glue.

Next, I used some White paper to wrap it around the cylinder (you can use some tracing paper instead to wrap it), hence It will act as a Diffuser for our lamp.

Finally, fix the whole assembly to the Base using some wood glue (fevicol).

Like a building our Pillars wont be inside the walls, instead we will put our Pillars outside on a circular path and will fix the on the holes that we made earlier on our Base-plate.

For the making of Pillars, we will use some waste Broom sticks. I had many in my home, hope you have too or you'll find it easily. So cut them according to the height and number.

Next, I wanted my Pillars to be colorful as all the other parts are White, so it will give a contrast to the structure. So, I used some glossy color papers. I cut small strips of blue and brown color papers and wrapped the pillars with the help of some wood glue and tape.

I made half the Pillars Blue and other halves are Brown. Next I fixed all the Pillars to the bottom holes of the Base-plate alternately, like one blue and then one brown and likewise. I used wood glue (fevicol) for this and kept them for drying. Be sure to fix the Pillars straight and perpendicular.

Now all our Base and body parts are complete, we will now make all our top parts for this lamp.

There will be two parts in the top, one I made a circular-plate and a ring for holding our Diffuser and another is for placing our top bulb-cover.

Here I took a Sun-board sheet and made another circular Top-plate and made opening in middle. Then I made another ring of Thermocol and made some holes in it (each at 1.5 cm away) so that our Pillars may fit into it. Then we glued the ring to the bottom side of the Top-plate using wood glue (fevicol).

Next I made another smaller right with Thermocol and Sun-board and install them in the inner circle of the Top-plate so that out Diffuser may fit into it.

Now I used a thin strip of Sun-board and made a decorating boundary line in the upper side of the Top-plate.

So, our Top-plate is almost ready, we just need to add another Stand for holding our bulb cover.

For this I used Thermocol and Sun-board pieces and made another ring holder of size equal to the inner space of the Top-plate (the cover diameter).

Then I cut several pieces of Sun-board sheet and wrapped in the outer sides of the ring in unequal heights. It will decorate the cover stand and hide our Thermocol piece. Add another thin strip to the inner circle, so that our Cover may sit in there easily.

This cover will act as a Dome for our structure. So, now glue this stand to the upper side of our Top-plate and keep for drying.

Now both our Base-plate, Body and Top-plate are ready. So, now we need to carefully place all the Pillars to the desired holes that we made in the Top-plate. Add wood glue (fevicol) to the holes before inserting the Pillars and also add more glue to the edges of the Pillars after installing.

Now let the glue to be dry and after drying add the cover to the top.

As this is a Lamp so, we need to have a Handle on it so that it gives a Lamp look and becomes easy to carry it or can be used for hanging purpose too.

For making the Handle I used 2mm Aluminium wire that you can easily find in any hardware store. Take a piece of wire and bend it in semi-circle shape. Also bend both the ends at perpendicular so that the ends may insert in the lamp.

Then cover the Handle with Heat shrink tube so that it become black and we do not see rust over time.

Now, make two opposite holes in the Top-cover-stand and insert the handle easily. Hence our lamp is now complete, all it needs is a power supply now and a bulb.

For making the Power supply I used Jumper cables and regular wires. For the AC Plug end I used a Male plug and for the other end I used Male Jumper cable Connectors.

Now take 2 male Jumper connector and glue them together and cover with Heat-shrink tube. Next, take some wires of desired length and Soldier the ends of both the terminals. Also use Heat-shrink tubing for insulation.

I used one old charger's male plug on the other end and soldiered nicely and then covered with Heat-shrink tubing.

So, now our Power supply is ready and we can insert the plug to the female connector of our Lamp.

Now, add any of you chosen color bulb or a RGB bulb and plug in the Power supply cord to the Female port of your Lamp and light it up.

So, tonight is going to be a beautiful night and its gonna embrace your feelings, your mood and enhance the beauty of your room.

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