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Tom Hodson

Maker, Baker Programmer Reformed Physicist RSE@ECMWF

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Downlight
Bikelight

An old ceiling mounted LED downlight becomes a chonky bike light.

I pulled this dying LED downlight out of my kitchen ceiling.

My hand pulling a circular LED downlight out of the ceiling.

In doing so I realised that this downlight has an amusingly chonky heatsink and a nice lens.

All the parts of the downlight laid out on the carpet. There's a lens, LED and various spacers. All the parts of the downlight laid out on the carpet. There's a lens, LED and various spacers.

So I made a front plate for it to turn it into a bicycle light. I think it suits the current cobbled together, solarpunky aesthetic of my bike.

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Next job is to actually mount it!

Me holding the printed out new front ring in front of the CAD model on my laptop.

Current mounting status: janky.

A front shot of the light mounted on my bike very jankily with a bolt. An angled shot of the same. A side shot of the same.