Flower Chandelier
Flower Chandelier, part 5
Jul 10th
I finally got around to making a light-switch for the chandelier. Weirdly, this wasn’t a huge priority – since the chandelier can be controlled from my main computer, I didn’t need to make a dedicated switch to control it. Having a light-switch on the wall nearby, though, is convenient. I didn’t want to always have to run over to my computer just to turn the light on.
It’s nothing all that fancy. I cut the green acrylic for the faceplate from a piece leftover from the chandelier. The yellow acrylic flower was an extra from the flowers I laser cut for the chandelier. I put some silvery mirrored paper behind each of the acrylic pieces.
Flower Chandelier, part 4
May 16th
The chandelier has been installed!
My dad and I mounted an aluminum beam to a concrete beam near my ceiling, and the chandelier hangs from that. Once the chandelier was hung, I added the butterflies that hang from the bottom of the chandelier. I still need to make a light switch so that I can control the light, but in the meantime, since it communicates wirelessly with the digital assistant running on my main computer, I have full control over the light from my computer. (See Flower Chandelier, part 1.)
Flower Chandelier, part 3
Apr 25th
Aaaaaaaaaa!!! Hexapus!!!!
Queue the trumpet fan-faire! All the parts for the chandelier have been finished! This article is a quick photo journey through the assembly of the chandelier. Most of the difficulty in this project was designing and making all the parts. The actual assembly was fairly easy. All the parts are stacked onto a central rod. The rod is threaded over its entire length and I used nuts and flanges between various parts to distribute the weight, so it’s not all sitting on the bottom-most part. More >
Flower Chandelier, part 2
Mar 28th
I’ve been busy, busy, busy designing parts for the chandelier. The picture to the left shows a rendering of the parts I modeled in CAD. I dragged my Dad into the project for the wooden parts – he has a lathe and I don’t, but mostly because he’s really good at woodworking. (Thanks Dad!) He also ended up helping with a lot of the other parts, and he had many good suggestions as we worked out how everything will fit together. As I write this, he’s finished the wood parts, but I haven’t picked them up yet. I can, however, show pictures of our progress on the other parts.
Flower Chandelier, part 1
Mar 4th
All right, I haven’t written for a while and it’s because I’ve been busy designing my next project – a chandelier that will hang above my dinette table! This is so fun! I worked up an approximation of what I want in Googly SketchUp, shown in the picture to the left. The white parts are leaded glass crystal, the brown parts are wood, and the yellow and green parts are transparent acrylic. The butterflies hanging below are little fabric butterflies I got at a craft store.
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