Hackers have loved LEDs from day one, back when they gave us little more than a dim spot of colored light in the darkness. These days, they’re big, bright, and beautiful, and can be used to create some exquisite lighting fixtures. This lamp build from [lonesoulsurfer] is a great example of that.

The build uses LED filaments, which have grown popular for the way they emulate old-fashioned Edison filament bulbs. The filaments consist of tiny LEDs all in a row, covered in flexible material to allow them to act like a filament. They’ll happily power up from just 3V, and deliver great brightness and lovely warm light. Filament Smart Bulb

[lonesoulsurfer] bent up an elegant oval-shaped frame for the lamp, using common brass tubing. In the middle of the are two lengths of white plastic tubing with the LEDs inside. The brass is painted black, with the LEDs providing two bright glowing lines on the arms of the oval. The base is then made out of wood and copper tubing, providing a pop of material contrast to the rest of the frame.

It’s an elegant build, and one you can readily recreate at home. If you do so with enough finesse, it will stunt on anything Ikea or (Australian) Kmart has put out in the last decade, in both material quality and uniqueness. We do love a good lamp build around these parts, after all. Video after the break.

For some reason I no longer see images on the instructables site, perhaps because of my active protection, and them they using ‘pixel.jpg’ as placeholders. So eager to deliver ads that the whole site becomes unusable? Oh well. I used to tell people to try instructables out, but over time that feeling of enthusiasm has been eroded a lot.

Owned by Autodesk. That’s all you need to know.

Hey! It looks like you’re building a lamp!

Where is possible to buy the filament led?

Where is possible buy the filament led?

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