The Origami Lampshade

Files in the GitHub link (the black cat icon)

• a Lampshade template in .ai and .dxf format to make your custom design
• the Materials list, settings & machine specs
• a Workshop Runsheet to run your own Lampshade workshop
• the Instructions to hand out to participants attending the workshop
• Fab Lab Wgtn’s Lampshade ready-to-cut sample in .ai and .dxf format
• others custom designs we made at Fab Lab Wgtn in .ai and .dxf format

Machine & software used

To create our lamps, we only used:

• a laser cutter (machine/process available in many Fab Labs - ours is a ILS12.150D Universal, powered with a 105W laser unit, with a bed-size of 1219.2x609.7mmm)
• Adobe Illustrator vector drawing software (a good free & open source alternative is Inkscape!)

Materials recommended

So far, we made great lampshades out of:

• 0.6mm polypropylene (the white model) or 0.35mm colored craft paper (the dark blue model)
• and 3mm acrylic (for the light socket fitting)

Workshop layout - create a “2-hour make your own lampshade”

• License - Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
• original design - Wendy Neale, based on an existing pattern by R. J. Lang
• workshop creators - Wendy Neale & Etienne Moreau (Fab Lab Wgtn)
• creation date - May 2018
• workshop type - hands-on workshop, 2 hours
• advised number of participants - 6
• machine needed - laser cutter with at least a 500x500mm bed
• software needed - vector drawing software like Inkscape or Illustrator
• suggested materials - for each lamp, a 500x500mm piece of 0.6mm white polypropylene or 0.35mm colored paper + a 85x80mm piece of 3mm acrylic