How to Make a Rhombic Dodecahedron Infinity Lamp

Ingredients:

1.] 8mm wide, 10 meter long, (of which I only used 240 cm), single color, 3000k (color temperature) white LED strip with adhesive backing.
2.] 22 gauge speaker or LED wire.
3.] One 12 inch by 24 inch two-way 40% transparent mirrored Acrylic pane, and an additional 12x12 inch pane, both were 1mm thick.
4.] Scotch Super 33 vinyl tape (or any vinyl tape really).

Tools:
1.] Dremel or similar routing tool (recommend corded, not battery powered, for your sanity).
2.] 561 bit or the standard black grinding disc that a Dremel comes with. But be aware of the amount of plastic this will kick off.
3.] Soldering Iron (I use a weller WE1010NA).
4.] Lead free solder (I use mudder 0.6 mm).
5.] xActo Knife, or a sharp object of your choosing. Sticks aren't a great option.
6.] Scissors.
7.] Paper.

Software:
1.] Not required really, but I used Affinity Designer on Mac and their diamond tool to make the rhombuses (rhombi?). I'm sure gimp (which is a free digital photo editor and art studio [and yes, spelled correctly]) can do the exact same thing.

My Rhombus dimensions:
12 cm per side
X-dimension: 138.56406 mm
Y-dimension: 195.95917 mm

Music produced by CatatonicCheer (c) 2020 and used with permission.

CatatonicCheer: "Bit of a last minute request, so the soundtrack is mostly built using loops from Logic Pro X. My favorite one is the "Genetic Code," loop which is used in its original form around the 9 minute mark. The first song in the video is a riff on that loop to prime your ear for it later on."

[ianstyles]

This is amazing seeing someone doing a Adam Savage build

[ac.creations]

I wouldve tried to score and snap the acrylic. That mask does almost nothing for dust, need m95 valve or respirator. Looks good I like the starry effect.

[masbokus]

wow! thanks for making this video! I got really excited to do one myself after seeing that video :) making a list of all the parts i need to buy right now

[projectwes]

a tile saw cuts so nice and because it uses water nearly all the microplastics are captured in the water tank of the saw

[eliseobenitez]

I love art, and this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen this year. Good job, sir God bless.

[sofilove...]

Such a good idea...great working...Woo Hoo...unreal beautiful...

[jaso]

Liked the Demogorgon vibe, but the endresult blew me away.

[xBrkenFreak]

I don't care what project you make, that commentary is fuken gold! :D But yeah i did end up here because I'm making a hexagon dodecahedron, and Mister Savages video and yours is good for extra input on how to! Good job my man!

[ChefKarllo]

Dude you are amazing wholesome and different keep it up king 👑

[supergrendel]

So ideally would you replace all of the acrylic panes with directional 2 way mirrored glass?

[tommyjay]

Could you please please please make a cad file that I should share with a laser cutting company to make the rhombuses? I don’t have any experience with CAD

[sokka]

Could you share a link where you got that acrylic 2 way mirror from? I am planning for a dodecahedron with pentagons as the sides.
I want to avoid using a foil but all the offers for coated acryl panels I found until now are destroying my budget :(
great video with good explanations

[williamtufts]

If you leave the protective film on the acrylic it makes cleaner cuts.

[trejkaz]

I too start with only having a dremel.

I think I would first cut a diagonal with corners at 70.529° and 109.471°. Then draw the grid of rhombi. Now you'll see you have multiple strips of rhombi. Then you cut the strips into rhombi.

Much easier because as humans we can do the same thing multiple times in a row faster than doing two things interleaved.

[shardulsatrange]

Use mirror spray paint on the led strips . Making it more seamless, also using a 5050 RGB would be great, if later paired with a music adapter

[C-o-r-y]

The rhombic dodecahedron nests in all the shapes, the regular dodecahedron has gaps, the Rhombic turns into a cube, the Rhombic fits into flower of life perfectly because the rhombic fits inside a hexagram shape, the hexagram is found throughout nature so the rhombic dodecahedron should replace the regular dodecahedron.

[aayushasomani]

What are the measurements and angle of the rhombus that u used ???

[VaSoapman]

I wonder if a coping saw would work on that acrylic.

[Fogmeister]

Gah! The singular of “vertices” is “vertex”.

It’s one of my pet peeves. So many people get that mixed up. Even Adam Savage did in his video.

[hackmaster]

Couldn't the accrylic be scored and snapped off instead of cutting?