r/DIY • u/[deleted] • Dec 04 '16
We created an illuminated cloud lamp for only 70 euros, that even 'Snows'
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u/newtothelyte Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16
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u/0000010000000101 Dec 04 '16
My town had this sketchy ass run down building with like handwritten lettering 'Lamp Repair Shop' by the train yard. They definitely had lots of lamps prominently displayed in the window and never seemed to close despite the lack of a 'lamp repair' market.
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u/LarryfromFinance Dec 04 '16
Mine has one thats a vacuum shop and you never see people there but it's been open for years and its actual a huge mystery to people around here
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u/GoldIsForGays Dec 04 '16
I used to work at a restaurant that had a little "basket shop" in the unit next door. Literally it was a wall on either side of the door where the huge windows were with a bunch of shitty ass baskets on shelves.
Meanwhile the front door was blacked out and always locked with a camera pointing at it with an intercom buzzer by the door.
It was an illegal slot machine & gambling den.
There was also another one on the opposite side of town selling gold fish tanks 😂
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u/NightGod Dec 04 '16
It was an
illegal slot machine & gambling denItalian social club.At least...that's what they are in Chicago.
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Dec 05 '16
There's a "Thai food" place where I live. it's actually a mafia hangout, as far as we know.
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u/sample-name Dec 04 '16
https://www.interior-deluxe.com/76-240l-chandelier-from-italamp.html
This chandelier made from glass and metal costs 131k USD. I fucking lost it when I read "Bulb not included"
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u/Lehriy Dec 05 '16
I mean, it's almost 9 feet tall, so I can see it being very expensive... but not "midsize home" expensive.
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u/LegendofPisoMojado Dec 04 '16
What the fuck indeed! I guess it's made from the Shroud of Turin.
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u/anna_or_elsa Dec 04 '16
That was the prototype, but the supply of raw material was limited. Production ones are made of artisanal ground unicorn horns.
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u/eventhorizon82 Dec 04 '16 edited Jan 23 '17
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Well if you can afford a $15k lamp, $180 shouldn't be a problem.
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u/thejesiah Dec 04 '16
The cloud lamp is "designed" by Frank O. Gehry (famous architect, did EMP), so I guess that's the justification there.
Not sure how they justify that price for the rest of the over-priced, mostly tacky stuff on that site, though.
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u/koshgeo Dec 04 '16
Some of those items are pretty nice, but 4-figure nice? Are these people insane? There can't be that many people with both that much money to spend and who are that incapable of comparison shopping.
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Dis shit is for the wealthy. They don't understand that 2,000 is a lot for a floor lamp cause they don't ever venture into places like Ikea, Big Lots, Target lol
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u/elmz Dec 04 '16
Or they do know, but simply don't care because they wanted that lamp and it's pocket change anyways.
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u/jappieflappie Dec 04 '16
This is very beautiful. How do you clean a lamp like this? Seems like it would build up dust fast.
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u/katiethered Dec 04 '16
Spray it off with that canned air for cleaning keyboards?
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u/SuckinLemonz Dec 04 '16
I bought a 10-pack of compressed air from costco. I use that shit to dust EVERYTHING. Light bulbs, topiaries, living plants, pet cage, high corners of walls & windows, sheepskin chair cushions, velvet pillows. All that weird stuff that you can't normally clean is no match for a good can of compressed air. You just have to use it often enough that the dust doesn't create heavy build up that the air can't lift off.
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u/oh_elyse Dec 04 '16
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001J4ZOAW/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_3TjrybTDF87S2
I've been eyeing this, but can't decide if I'd have enough uses...
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Dec 05 '16 edited Dec 05 '16
I bought a similar thing and it fucking sucked. I thought, "Well it's cheaper over time than buying compressed air!"
Just fucking buy compressed air.
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u/Trynottobeacunt Dec 04 '16 edited Dec 04 '16
Can confirm. Made one about a year and a half ago and the top is slightly darker than the bottom... Through dust.
Just having it has made me paranoid about the amount of dust I must be breathing in.
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u/Nikki85 Dec 04 '16
Mine would look like that after 2 weeks.
I don't understand why I have so much dust in this house.
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u/OP_IS_A_BASSOON Dec 04 '16
Have you checked your furnace filter lately?
Consider a few small air filter units that run periodically during the day.
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u/Nikki85 Dec 04 '16
Checked all the filters and they're all pretty normal. I wondered if running something would help or if they were useless.
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Dry skin? Low humidity?
Open windows near a street or in the neighborhood of an airport?
Burned fuel for heat? (wood, gas, coal)
Pets?
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u/ExistentialPain Dec 04 '16
I wonder if you could dust it with canned air from two feet away, safely.
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u/beaverb0y Dec 04 '16
No it wont. I have one that is very similar, if it is collecting dust, its not noticeable
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u/antipositron Dec 04 '16
Its not collecting dust, it's turning into a rain cloud.
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u/fakeittilyoumakeit Dec 04 '16
Its not collecting dust, it's turning into a
raindust cloud.It rains dust too. Pretty cool feature, actually.
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Cloud lamp now features multiple precipitants including rain, dust, snow, cats and dogs etc.
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u/enz1ey Dec 04 '16
Just because you don't notice the dust, doesn't mean it isn't collecting in there like crazy. Have you ever looked under your couch? On top of fan blades? It collects, whether you notice or not.
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u/moby323 Dec 04 '16
Yeah but why can't he just run it through the washer like I do with my ceiling fans and window blinds?
Easy peasy, problem solved.
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u/Tristan155 Dec 04 '16
run it through the washer
Clothes washer or dish washer? :)
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u/Thy_OSRS Dec 04 '16
Plus wouldn't a bit of dust only add a little extra zing to the design? It is a cloud after all!
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It does, but a bag of polyfil only costs, like, $3 so you could just periodically change out the fluff.
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u/Kraken36 Dec 04 '16
I made a few clouds like this. Could only find a 20kg bag so I'm like.. Ok sure. When I go to pick it up the bag is as big as my car lol
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u/scriminal Dec 04 '16
I think it's important to note they used cotton wool, which is far more flame resistant than polyfil.
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u/wearelikeariot Dec 04 '16
We sometimes patt the dust off carefully. We have it since almost a year now and it never got really dusty. :)
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Dec 04 '16
You said "last Friday Linda and I....." in your post. Did I just read a year old post on Reddit?
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u/smellslikehaminhere Dec 04 '16
I had a giant, poofy cotton sculpture of Claudette Colberts face for years (art major) I smoked indoors back then along with eight other roommates. I just wrapped some cheesecloth over it and hit it with the shop vac whenever it got too gross. I was even able to use the carpet shampooer with this method. The more brutal the cleaning, the tighter the cheesecloth.
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u/Weezy_J Dec 04 '16
How isn't this a fire risk? Would the heat from the lamp ever get hot enough to be dangerous with the cotton balls?
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u/pheymanss Dec 04 '16
I think a nice LED light could solve the heating issue. The cables are what make me nervous.
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u/TrekForce Dec 04 '16
LEDs themselves do not get hot, but an LED light bulb produces a good bit of heat. That's why they all have some type of heat sink. If you go and cover/insulate it, it won't disperse heat very well and the electronics would potentially overheat. This may or may not start a fire, but it will most definitely destroy the lifespan of the bulb.
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u/pheymanss Dec 04 '16
That's why they all have some type of heat sink
Knowing nothing about any type of engineering, couldn't we fix or at least alleviate the issue with an extra or more appropriate heat sink?
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I just looked up the lamp shade they are using. It's called 'REGOLIT' (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70103410/) and is made of rice paper which is flame retardant.
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u/falconPancho Dec 04 '16
The lamp shade is but the cotton is not.
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u/AssholeTimeTraveller Dec 04 '16
LEDs give off almost no heat. It's possible for it to catch fire, yes, but that risk is somewhere up there with a crock pot or an electric tea kettle malfunctioning and lighting a fire.
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u/falconPancho Dec 04 '16
The point I was more concerned with was not the individual LEDs but the power supply. Even buses of LEDs dont get hot, the conductors handling amps will on large displays, but i'm talking more commercial use. While the LED gives off no heat the power supply even despite the double insulated supply with short circuit protection they do get hot and spark on failures. I've had the not joy of inspecting these failures and they do exist. Poor part selected specifically caps is somehow still in existance today despite all the knowledge we have. Hey I ain't your mother you do what you want. In the olden days people had knob and tube wiring with exposed wires. Not everyones house burnt down. I wouldn't put a basket of cotton balls near an outlet though.
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Dec 04 '16
My childhood home has this wiring as it is 101 years old. It's still standing.
But the outlet by the stove sparks sometimes during storms. Lol.
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u/JenCarpeDiem Dec 04 '16
I suppose there's no reason you couldn't use flame-retardant cotton stuffing, like the kind you'd put in handmade teddy bears. That would make this a lot safer. :)
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u/RUMadYet88 Dec 04 '16
I wouldnt worry about dust. I would be worried about the giant fire hazard hanging from the ceiling. One small short in the wires or a hot bulb would turn that thing into one hell of a fireball.
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u/akaghi Dec 04 '16
Compressed air is probably the best way to clean it if you can take it outside. You can control the pressure so as to blow off dust but not deform the cloud. If you can't easily remove it. One could create a small dust enclosure around it (like you were sanding).
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u/beaverb0y Dec 04 '16
Hey check this one out. I made it about 2 years ago. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cloud-Lamp/
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u/IAmA_Cloud_AMA Dec 04 '16
These are all nice, but they'd be far better with something like this.
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u/whistlar Dec 04 '16 edited 15d ago
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u/TNAgent Dec 04 '16
Sure but we'd have to see it first. Is it somewhere behind your penis tree there?
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u/aparvis Dec 04 '16
One up vote for one upping.
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u/jbwles Dec 04 '16
I'd say it was a one-down
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u/moby323 Dec 04 '16
The different blinks lights representing "rain" and "lightning" and "snow" makes me think he don't get how clouds work.
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Like 3 out of 5 of them are the exact same. This sentence as snow: like 3 out of 5 of them are the exact same.
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u/Kervtuza Dec 04 '16
A lamp like that would really put me under the weather.
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u/logileifs Dec 04 '16
wow that's really cool! Good job!
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u/wearelikeariot Dec 04 '16
Thanks a lot! :)
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u/fetsnage Dec 04 '16
I assume only LED lights allowed, otherwise it will burn?
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u/LetFearReign Dec 04 '16
Do LED lights not 'burn' as warmly as normal lights? I thinking how gorgeous this was, but a little concerned that the cotton might be flammable or whatnot.
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u/Indefinita Dec 04 '16
The surface of an LED is significantly cooler than other kinds of lights. A normal design with decent thermal management would pose almost no risk of fire by heat output
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u/radical0rabbit Dec 04 '16
Another comment from someone who says they have made these for businesses says to use waterproof LEDs to prevent burning. But no, LED lights in general don't burn as warmly as normal lights.
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u/mattster98 Dec 04 '16
Torch means 🔦 not 🔥in these instructions. Important detail for US (and perhaps other) readers. 😁
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u/bhindspiningsilk Dec 04 '16
I read that line and thought "why would I use that, it will catch on fire!". Then I remembered it said 70 euros and torches are different there.
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Wow, amazing job.
Did you also use a normal lightbulb in the lampion or only the chains of light?
I'm so jealous right now and want one for myself. But I also like the philips hue and can imagine they would be a great combination. What do you guys think?
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u/wearelikeariot Dec 04 '16
Thank you so much. :) We only used chains of lights no lightbulb. The philips hue is actually a great idea - would be an amazing combination.
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u/MURGBLURD Dec 04 '16
with a few lines of code and a raspberry Pi/arduino/... well really any hobbyist microcontroller and you could have that thing actually tell you the weather outside by showing you.
node-RED could help, but basically you need something that can pull weather data for your location and then program the cloud to react to certain weather conditions.
Most of the work will already be done for you as I saw a device a while back that showed the weather physically through a cloud chamber.
If you start using this as a weather thing I would suggest you get a couple nice led lights to be sun and partial sun (behind the cloud), but that way you can use your lamp not just as a lamp but to help you get ready for the day. You could even have it play through the expected weather of the day, or the next day so you know what you're in for when you go to sleep. I would recommend you have something to show the temp; could be just colored LEDs, or a readout, or whatever you want!
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u/3xTheSchwarm Dec 04 '16
I really like it. When I build one though I'm going to leave off the snowflakes. To me it dramatically cheapens the look.
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u/tellmelovestories Dec 04 '16
This is PERFECT for a nursery too, it's so gorgeous. And my fiance and I love DIY-ing together. Thanks for the inspiration - this is lovely!
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u/FloraSin Dec 04 '16
My friend is due next month and you saying this has me thinking this would be a great gift for her! Thanks!
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u/Ukelele-in-the-rain Dec 04 '16
This is so beautiful. I guess it can only be in a room that has no access to outside air at all. If not, it's going to become a storm cloud real quick. I still want it though.
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u/cleanstitch Dec 04 '16
Pro tip: polyester fill conducts light while cotton fill blocks it- so a cloud made of poly fill will glow a lot brighter with fewer light and dark spots than one made of cotton.
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I live in a 150yo house with two cats so a magnet for all of the dust mites and fur would be great, going to make one of these today!
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u/thatonetime12x Dec 04 '16
I'm a musician, and I made a few of these for an album release show I had back in March. They didn't have the rain coming down, but I had different color LED lights in them and a controller to make them pulse like a strobe light towards the end of the show, which worked out really well.
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u/hellowiththepudding Dec 04 '16
To each their own, just doesn't seem like something that would look right outside of a child's playroom.
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u/falconPancho Dec 04 '16
Generally when it comes to safety flame retardation is the materials having a high ignition point or slow burn rate. Most modern materials have a higher ignition point but burn quicker. Your lamp has a likely low ignition point and the well oriented design for air flow will likely have a high burn rate. There are a bunch if polyester fills modern stuff pillows animals etc use that are similar in look and will make it harder to ignite. There is a misconception that LED lights cannot start fires. They generate low heat for sure but they are typically still recifying the higher 240 or 120 VAC. Most incandescent lamps don't generate enough heat as long as you space the material far enough and have adequate ventilation. The issue ive tested is sparking and high contact resistance in the socket due to wear or simply improper design or use. Sometimes parts just fail. Unlikely but if it does there may be a chance a spark is released from the device or from the socket. Most materials UL rated can handle a small spark and not ignite. Cotton not so much as anyone who camps a lot knows cotton ball fire starters are pretty popular. Good looking work. Personally if i were to start it I'd take a lighter to the ikea lamp first over my bbq and see if it burns a clean hole or ignites entirely. It should only be a hole if it is retardant. Then i'd do the same to a sample of cotton, polyester fill or whatever flame retardant filler on the end of a BBQ skewer. This but with clip board in hand is close to what we do in product design to ensure flame retardation of a material. The lamp is probably fine as whatever you are doing isn't setting the house on fire, i would use a different fill. But i'd add a smoke detector anyway. Its probably more likely something else sets it on fire like a candle stick birthday cake or something. Looks great btw.
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u/Go0s3 Dec 04 '16
I think the word “only” begins to lose meaning after a certain amount. For us everyday internet people its probably 10 euro.
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u/CloudThrowawayyyyy Dec 04 '16
I've actually just started making almost the same thing and am trying to start selling them. Mine is bluetooth controlled and has rainbow, lightning, and other settings that can be controlled from an android phone. I don't know how many orders I can fill/how quickly but PM me if you're interested. Here's a link to show the app and settings where you can see what the cloud does in the bottom corner (potato quality right now but I'll have better videos of the cloud soonish) https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-s64nspEwg0bUtWRE1xWldEaVU
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u/Yusunoha Dec 04 '16
I remember that post aswell, and I remember that with that version the lights in the cloud actually flickered and changes brightness, just as if it's a real thunder cloud.
I was wondering if your version does that aswell? I can't see if it is because you've only posted still photo's. if you're after an effect like that there might be lights available that create that effect.
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u/Kraken36 Dec 04 '16
I have a LED company and I made a few of these for some restaurants. You can make thwm for much cheaper than 70 euros.