Beacon

Materials

Aluminum, birch plywood, glass, Arduino Uno

Processes

Milling, Turning, Sheet Metal Forming, Woodworking, Electronics

Design Goals

To create a "smart" task lamp that turns on and off automatically and increases its brightness when the room gets dark. Beacon was inspired by seeing people work with such intense focus that even the sunset and a dark work table wouldn’t break their concentration. I wanted to design a lamp that would help preserve that moment of focus.

Challenges

Beacon was an exercise in harmoniously integrating the electronics and raw, stock material forms into an elegant form that is easy to fabricate repeatably.