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Cool project indeed. I used to own the first model and thought about how one could motorize the lamp. I used to own the one which didn’t have the reflected coating on the inside panels. At least in Germany they changed that a few years back from plain white to silver or gold reflection. And now the lamp is also available in bigger sizes. I bought it like most because of the interesting design. But was never really pl…
Even when you do finally get it flush after several painful iterations of hanging it, gravity stretches the cord causing the base to come slightly away from the ceiling again.
If you’re OCD like me, it made the light a horrible reminder of that OCD. So in the end I gave up on the light.
Pity because it’s a really cool looking light.
I owned one of these lights before it went viral and it was a nightmare to install. The thing doesn’t screw into the ceiling like every other light figure does. Instead you install a hook and dangle the damn thing off the hook. Which means the plastic surround never goes flush with the ceiling. Even when you do finally get it flush after several painful iterations of hanging it, gravity stretches the cord causing the…
I owned one of these lights before it went viral and it was a nightmare to install. The thing doesn’t screw into the ceiling like every other light figure does. Instead you install a hook and dangle the damn thing off the hook. Which means the plastic surround never goes flush with the ceiling. Even when you do finally get it flush after several painful iterations of hanging it, gravity stretches the cord causing the…
Never seen a light fixture that screws into the ceiling.
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Never seen a light fixture that screws into the ceiling.
Some fixtures screw into an electrical box attached to the studs in the ceiling. The IKEA SIMRISHAMN pendant does that, for example.
What do you do if you want to move a ceiling light a bit to the side? Do you install an entire new electrical box?
I owned one of these lights before it went viral and it was a nightmare to install. The thing doesn’t screw into the ceiling like every other light figure does. Instead you install a hook and dangle the damn thing off the hook. Which means the plastic surround never goes flush with the ceiling. Even when you do finally get it flush after several painful iterations of hanging it, gravity stretches the cord causing the…
Never seen a light fixture that screws into the ceiling.
When I bought the Ikea light, it was just hook and no way to fix the plastic surround to the ceiling.
Ikea might have updated the light since then though. As I said before, I got the light when it was new, long before it went viral, and ikea might have tweaked the design since.
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Some fixtures screw into an electrical box attached to the studs in the ceiling. The IKEA SIMRISHAMN pendant does that, for example.
Looking at the Ikea US website, the Simrishamn and PS 2014 seem to have similar solutions: a plate that screws into an electrical box and provides a hook (the lowest common international denominator). What do you do if you want to move a ceiling light a bit to the side? Do you install an entire new electrical box?
You don’t actually need the box though. In fact they weren’t even available in my previous two homes. It’s really more a convenience thing than anything.
But again, this is assuming we are talking about the same thing (region differences and all).
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Looking at the Ikea US website, the Simrishamn and PS 2014 seem to have similar solutions: a plate that screws into an electrical box and provides a hook (the lowest common international denominator). What do you do if you want to move a ceiling light a bit to the side? Do you install an entire new electrical box?
If those electrical boxes are anything like the ones in the video I shared, then they’re trivial to move. You don’t actually need the box though. In fact they weren’t even available in my previous two homes. It’s really more a convenience thing than anything. But again, this is assuming we are talking about the same thing (region differences and all).
Why does this lamp make people think of the death star? Me and my wife bought it ten years ago because of the cool mechanism and immediately started calling it the death star, but I struggle to see what the resemblance really is.
- It's spherical
- The pattern of the tiles slightly resembles the pattern on the death star
- When you open it, it looks like it "explodes", like every proper death star eventually does
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Thanks for letting me know about the video playback issue, I used the following script to create the timelapse: ffmpeg \ -pattern_type glob \ -framerate 30 \ -i "img/*.JPG" \ -i "star_wars_style_march.mp3" \ -s:v 1920x1080 \ -c:a libopus \ -c:v vp9 \ -shortest \ deathstar_timelapse.webm I actually thought that VP9 and Opus are well supported everywhere by now, but maybe that is not the case… Regarding GitLab, as a ge…
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