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Industrial Design Students: You Should Build This Combination Light, Shelf and Power Unit For Your Dorm Room

Remember: You're not one of those losers in Graphic Design, Architecture or Fashion

By Rain Noe - October 10, 2018

in Object Culture

As I mentioned in our post on ID student dorm rooms, your dorm should look vastly different than that of other majors', as you should be hacking the heck out of that space, given your education and facilities access.

Two areas where standard dorm rooms always fall short is light and power. While all dorms provide desks, few provide task lighting for said desks, and you can never have enough power outlets. So this Makers Light, Shelf & Power Box by Instructables user TechKiwiGadgets would be the perfect thing to build for your room.

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It's simple to make, useful and easily customizable; it wouldn't take much imagination to add a headphones holder, storage for drawing implements or cable management. Depending on what equipment your school's ID shop offers, you could make the components for this out of wood, plastic or metal using conventional tools, or you could get fancier if your shop has a CNC mill, 3D printer and/or laser cutter.

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If you decide to tackle this, please share a photo in the comments.

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simon a.

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It looks nasty.

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Archie Tolentino

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If you implement a simple peg hinge on the horizontal wood piece facing the user you can control the depth of light throw on the desk. Cool Idea!

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The only time you want lighting in front of you is when you're sitting in front of a camera. Otherwise, the glare increases fatigue and reduces visual acuity. A far better lighting situation for someone at a desk is a shielded light on the side and slightly behind. The light source should be diffuse and 3000 K color temperature. You should never be able to see the light source itself.

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  I am curious about the 3000k, why not 5000K day light?
  
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