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Totoro Light Box

During this Christmass, I wanted to spend all my time with my laser engraving machine. I wanted to make a lamp. After geeking a lot of time, I discover the trend with paper layers. Therefore, I decided to make a light box using wood.



Introduction

A lightbox is a box with LEDs on the bottom, and several layers of paper or wood.

Because wood is much more expensive than paper, I searched on amazon for the best price.

I was able to find A4 (almost: 30cm x 20cm) plywood sheet of 2mm thickness.

With one A4 sheet, I can get 2 A5 sheets (20 x 15cm).

I designed this box for inserting A5 sheet + some error margin.

Plans are easy to make.

Assembly

Spacers

To help light diffusion, I putted some separator which are empty layers.

They should perfectly fit in the box.

Totoro Template

I found the layers’ template at L’atelier du bois - Matindetempete

There are many copies available online (for sale). Paper rendering is better than wood. However, Wood will last longuer.

Light

I used an arduino nano (the cheepest you can get !) and a LED strip with 30 LED / meter (RGB addressable LED).

For now, the arduino is still on a bread board. I will update this in the future.

Result



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