been there done that

A friend of mine asked me some time ago (ages) to help him build a lamp made aut of old bicycle lights – especially the electrical part.

So when I next saw him and asked to schedule some get together he didn’t seem to interested anymore and handed me a shopping bag full of vintage bike lights.

After having these lying in our living room shelv for quite some time – waiting for inspiration – I came up with an idea of how to make those into a nice lamp.

^^ that is an Ikea Kallax-style shelv made from beech glued wood – that is quite inexpensive to be had from Hornbach.
How it came about can be found here.

The bike lamp build process:

Materials:

• some nice looking bike lamps
• aluminum
  • pipe
  • 12mm sheet
• some screws
• some wires
• warm (2700K) led lights that fit into the bike lamps
• 5V power adapter
• touch dimmer

Tools:

• CAD Software
• CNC Mill
• chamfer router (to break the edges)
• drill (drill bit, threading die)
• soldering iron
• scotch pad / fine sandpaper