I used warli art to make my lantern. I put tissues to diffuse the light.

Here is my completed lantern project along with my process! I experienced a lot of issues with tolerances from lasercutter to lasercutter which caused failed cuts where the design was only cut through partially. I’m really happy with how it turned out, definitely worth the all the time I put in! Especially just the way…

I had a lot of fun with this project! I stuck to my original idea of making a case for my diffuser. Since it already had a color-changing function, I used it as my light component for the lantern. I edited the design from my last WIP to have five panels, each with its own…

Here are some images of my lantern project. I still plan to add a frame around the edge, as light is currently shining all around to the sides of the piece because of the uncovered acrylic. My question is weather I should re-cut the top layer of wood. The engravings I made were not deep…

This lantern was quite an experiment. Between trying to shine light through an engraving and rastering images over kerf bends, it was never going to be perfect. The light really doesn’t come through the wood at all, only through the bending, so I left the bottom off for more light and better access. One of…

So far this is my progress on the lantern project! Since the last post, I have decided to do five panels. I added one more design and took away the strange leaves from the last one haha. This week I was able to finish laser-cutting everything. I decided to switch from wood to black acrylic…

For this project I completed a candle holder that projects trees and hexagons onto the wall as well as illuminating the lantern itself. This project had many blocking points that I had to overcome, the laser cutter being incorrectly setups costed me a day of cutting, having wood that was too thick forced me to…

As described in my Lantern Design post my lantern is a cardboard box that I cut using the smaller laser cutter and finger joints. I then glued some purple paper to the inside of the panel containing the design cutout so that the light would have a purple glow because the light I used to…

So far I have had good success with my lanterns project, I began by making a small test kerf bent box, it worked great and I didn’t have to alter my tolerances at all. I then made a few small acrylic test circles to test the settings for cutting and engraving. I then cut out…

I was able to get my pieces cut for this piece, but one piece couldn’t be cut fully. I like the way it all turned out! The LEDs I bought have the option to have a battery pack or be plugged into a socket, though, and the hole I have cut out on the bottom…

I have been cutting and messing with my design so far I have this cut. new design

For my work in progress, I am working on getting to the laser cutter, it has been hard with my schedule. I incorporated the hole for the wire for my lantern and finalized where the cracks are going to be in the lantern.

For the design I was going for, 3D modeling and printing seemed to be the best route as opposed to laser cutting. The constraints of 3D modeling software have always led me to adapt my original designs as I try to model them out. This creative adaptation that the software enforces was used as a…

I finished designing the frame of my Nether Portal lantern, It was difficult to figure out how to create the finger joints for the hollow part and also figure out how to handle kerf. Now that I am done with drawing in Inkscape I will be able to cut the parts on Friday, and assemble…

For my lantern project, I decided to do one of my favorite scenes from Howl’s Moving Castle where Howl is holding the “fallen star”. I thought that this would be a really good scene for a lantern because of the brightness of the star and the darkness of the rest of the scene. I used…

Update: I was able to cut and assemble my lantern and love how it turned out. I finished my design and added finger joints to my box. I did not have time to go in and use the laser, but will do so this weekend. I am wondering if I should put colored tissue paper…