Lightbulb diffuser
The diffuser was printed with 0.8mm wall thickness to ensure that only 2 perimeters would be used. This gave it a nice surface finish and shape, while preserving its translucency.
Project description
After moving into my new apartment in the fall of 2020, I noticed that the light in my room was just a naked lightbulb attached to a ceiling fan. I immediately started thinking about a way to mellow out the light, using my 3D printer. I settled on a lightbulb diffuser design that consisted of two parts. The first part would be an adapter ring that would mount to the ceiling fan and allow for different diffuser designs to quickly be screwed on and off. The second part was the diffuser/shade assembly. By splitting the design like this, I was able to save filament when testing different designs for the adapter, because I didn’t have to print the diffuser shade every time I tested a new adapter.
The final product works well and looks at home in my room.
The diffuser threads onto the adapter as shown in this cutaway view.
The adapter mounts to the fan using three holes that line up with screws on the fan.