Onda - Kinetic Wave Lamp
I always wanted a kinetic lamp, so I built one. Twenty orange acrylic blades rise and fall one after the other and draw a wave that never stops. There is no code inside: one small motor turns a printed shaft with twenty cams, and the wave comes from the mechanism alone.
How It Works:
Each blade rests on its own cam, a disc mounted 14 mm off center, and two printed guides keep it straight. Every cam is turned 18° from the one before, so the twenty of them make a full circle and the blades always draw one whole wave. The blades rise 28 mm and come back down by their own weight. A 14-tooth pinion on the motor drives a 56-tooth gear on the shaft: about one wave every 4 seconds at full speed, slower with the knob of the speed controller.
Light:
Four LED boards inside the housing light the hidden part of the blades, and the light comes out of the fluorescent edges. An orange button on the back switches them on and off.
Details:
• No Soldering, No Code: the motor, the speed controller, the LED boards and the switch plug into each other.
• No Supports: every part is designed to print flat on the bed.
• Simple Build: all the electronics sit in the back half of the housing and mount from above. The front half is only the cover.
• Slot Test: it checks your acrylic before you cut all twenty blades.
• Optional cover for the speed controller, with a laser engraved top.
