Trying to make a pretty book lamp

You are placing a burden on people you gift things to that diminishes the value of receiving gifts from you. It&#x27;s like giving a friend a painting and then holding the friendship hostage unless they hang it up as their living room centerpiece.<p>I find it rewarding to give people things. I find joy in the act of giving and how the other person might feel by receiving the item. If they use the thing for a week and then and throw it away, it doesn&#x27;t diminish the act of having given it to them. If anything it makes me briefly reflect on how I can give a more useful gift next time.<p>So you&#x27;ve now given your dad a gift, he lost it and feels terrible about it, and you&#x27;re chastising him in iMessage and on the internet, ensuring that he feels even more awful. The next time you give him something it&#x27;ll be accompanied by a sense of anxiety and dread.<p>Unless you think he was intentionally careless with the gift out of malice, why don&#x27;t you stop being an asshole for a second and console him instead.

A quick observation: The reed switch might have been &quot;sticky&quot; not because of the strength of the magnet, but because of the current all those lights required. For any given reed switch, there&#x27;s a current that will keep it from disengaging once it engages. Reed switches are generally considered signal devices, not current switches for this reason.

&quot;electrical engineers seem to be in the biz basically only to make lights turn on or blink.&quot; or for writing about the build process :)

I&#x27;m a software engineer trying to learn hardware. I noticed in the article, the author drew some schematics.<p>These days, I don&#x27;t use UML to write apps (everything in my head as I do everything myself anyway, and sometimes I write comments and unit tests), but I remember it being useful during my early days of programming.<p>I&#x27;m thinking, since this is my early days of hardware, I should use write schematics (just like I did with UML). Is that a good idea? Where to get started?

Travelling to SFMOMA (from Sydney) I came across the Lumio books and I found them absolutely gorgeous. As a poor college student the price was very steep though.<p>That article definitely inspired me to have a crack at making my own!<p>An open-source PCB&#x2F;laser cut paper book light project like the Lumio sounds like a great idea - if anyone knows of other builds I&#x27;d love to see.

I don&#x27;t understand why he went though all the trouble of designing and printing that 3d box but didn&#x27;t make a professional PCB. If it were me I would have done a PCB before even considering that box and just mounted the PCB directly in the book.

It looks like in the original the top-bottom of the pages js glued together and the inside of the pages is cut-off. That&#x27;d probably make it better at difussing the light.

Nice work, and nice end product. This is exactly the sort of thing I&#x27;d not only have in my house, but would be happy to give to others.

Wasn&#x27;t there a thing like this on Shark Tank?

Nice idea, interesting project, but repeated dad bashing is a bit off-putting.

give your dad a break!