TeaLamps Project · turntable renders
Printed panel lamps lit from below by three addressable LEDs. The panels change from line to line — pierced or relief — but underneath every one of them sits the same 26 × 30 mm carrier and the same candle-flicker firmware.
Scripture panels
Four flat 80 × 100 mm faces mitred into a square tube. A pierced panel lets light through the cut; a relief panel varies the wall thickness instead, so the same geometry reads as tone rather than hole.
Flat pierced
Psalm 119:47–48. Square tube, straight top edge — the base form the rest of the line is cut from.
Arched pierced
The same verse and the same cut, given an arched crown. Changes the silhouette without touching the panel art.
Arched relief
No holes. A thinned wall carries the text, so the panel stays sealed and the light grades instead of cutting.
Decalogue tablets
Hebrew and Greek, paired. The one panel in the line whose outline is the subject rather than a frame around it.
Names
Four names in Egyptian hieroglyphs, one to a face, each ringed by the cartouche that marked a royal name. The ring is a capsule — a circle swept along a line — and that one fact is why the browser preview and the printed panel place every glyph from the same two lines of algebra, with no geometry library between them.
Cartouche pierced
Mike, Yoli, Josh and Jayson. Dark face, and the ring and glyphs are the holes — the name is what the light comes through.
Cartouche relief
The exact negative of it. One glowing face with the ring and glyphs standing dark on top — same layout, nothing cut, the wall never broken.
Underneath
Every lamp above is an MCU, the common LED carrier and a touch pad. That is the whole bill of materials. What separates the levels is radio, not light.
Touch, USB-C power, four modes, no radio. The only level that needs a driver board of its own.
Adds the phone app, and the custom-colour modes that come with it — seven against four.
Adds A2DP, so the lamp streams its own sound effects to an ordinary Bluetooth speaker.
| # | Mode | Renders as |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | FLICKER | 192/66/0 |
| 1 | FADE | hue rotation |
| 2 | STEADY | 255/180/120 |
| 3 | CUSTOM_STEADY | your colour |
| 4 | CUSTOM_FLICKER | your colour |
| 5 | CUSTOM_FADE | breathing |
| 6 | SPOOKY | 255/0/0 + flashes |
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