CNC Offcut Lamp Project
Creating some lampshades using offcuts from sheet metal profile cutting businesses/ operations
There is an opportunity to use offcuts from sheet metal profile cutting processes/ businesses to create high end products using material that would otherwise be down-cycled.
I'd like to fill the "empty space" in repeated sheet metal cutting jobs.
Here I will document the process of designing and creating laser cut sheet metal lampshades to address this issue, as well as offering lower-cost, beautiful products to consumers and businesses.
I'd like to incorporate movement and the idea of nature-inspired kinetic sculptures where I can.
The first item in this product range is the lotus lampshade, a multi-petaled cylindrical lampshade that can be opened and closed to let more or less light through.
Intended to be compatible for both tabletop, upward-facing applications and hanging, downward-facing applications.
The concept is to rotate the inner ring by hand in order to adjust the degree of expansion.
Currently in the mechanism prototyping stage.
