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▲Show HN: Lamp Carousel – DIY kinetic sculpture powered by lamp heat (2024)evan.widloski.com
62 points by Evidlo 1 days ago | 12 comments
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dpflug 9 minutes ago [-]
This feels like the delightful oddities one would stumble across on the Old Internet. Thank you for sharing!
lgvld 24 minutes ago [-]
So cool, thanks for sharing.

We used to do that as children as well: a spiral cutted out of paper on top of a long skewer stuck into a potato. Felt like perpetual motion somehow.

It works if you put it on top of a radiator btw.

yial 3 hours ago [-]
This is such a charming project! I’ve been quite taken for years by the “Christmas” decorations that spin using a candle.

I quite like these more - mainly because they could be added onto a lamp that puts off heat, and be kind of a perpetual decoration with subtle motion.

I love your “dad turbine” design, and the flying wing has some magical quality to it.

Thank you so much for sharing!

LilyMed 17 minutes ago [-]
Best invention since the wheel! Wow! Incredible! You are probably the smartest person ever for creating it! Add a link to the etsy store, where you're selling those, I need like a 1,000.
andai 2 hours ago [-]
Delightful, thank you for sharing. You have added a little bit of whimsy to the world :)
danielbln 4 hours ago [-]
These look fun, I'm partial to the dad turbine. Too bad (for something like this) that basically none of my lamps produce much heat these days.
Evidlo 29 minutes ago [-]
I've not found any LED bulbs that didn't put out enough heat to work.
anonymousiam 3 hours ago [-]
You're in luck:

https://inside.lighting/news/25-06/new-bill-pushes-end-incan...

thayne 14 minutes ago [-]
Wow. That is disappointing, but not terribly surprising given the current government.
mohaba 3 hours ago [-]
Why would they be in luck? Did you read the article? Just because the efficiency floor is eliminated doesn’t mean production would or even could restart.
IshKebab 2 hours ago [-]
Do people still use incandescent bulbs in America?
rconti 1 hours ago [-]
Looks like they were only (generally) outlawed for sale in 2023. Though some states were ahead of that.

They last a long time, though, and I imagine a lot of people are still using their existing bulbs. I can't imagine doing that in CA, where our electricity is expensive, but if you're paying 6c/kWh, I suppose, may as well?

abstractspoon 17 hours ago [-]
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