Recycled Spool Smart Lamp – With Sound Reactivity, MQTT, Hue & Alexa : 23 Steps (with Pictures)

Now you may be thinking correctly that filament spools come in all shapes and sizes. So to accommodate this I have designed and freely published a parametric model which you can download – you then simply update the values for features such as:

• Spool diameter
• Spools internal height
• Leg material thickness
• Number of spools used
• Diameter of spool’s core

Into a table and the model will adjust and produce the parts you need to print for your own lamp.

You will need copy of Fusion 360 to be able to edit the model for this project. If you already have it, great. If not, you can download a free version for personal use here: www.autodesk.co.uk/products/fusion-360/personal

After you have access to Fusion 360 sorted we can go ahead and download the project file for the lamp using the link attached to this step.

Once you have downloaded the project file we will need to upload it to Fusion. This is simply a case of choosing ‘File’ -> ‘Upload’ from the main menu

Locate the project file you dowloaded and choose a location in Fusion 360 to save the upload. When the upload process has completed we can go ahead and open the file to begin some super simple editing.

At the top of the menu bar is a button which opens a table for editing parameters – it looks like an italic ‘fx’. Pressing this will reveal the table of parametric values.

In this table you can update the value under the column titled ‘Expression’. As you update the values you will see the model updating itself to reflect the changes. (All values can be updated but I would not adjust ‘AngleOfLegs’ or ‘DistanceLegsFromEdgeOfBase’ unless you are confident in updating features and sketches in the timeline of the model as these are most likely to ‘break’ the design intent of the model.)

After you have finished updating the dimension in the table you can export individual parts from the model as STLs and then take these to your slicer of choice to prepare for 3D printing. The easiest way to do this is to click on the part / body you wish to export. Then in the hierarchy on the side you will see a squiggle (1) showing you where the part you have selected reads, expand the tree until you find the part nested inside the ‘Bodies’ folder’. You can then right click the part (2) in the hierarchy and choose to ‘Save as Mesh’ (3).