Lithophane Moon Stand for LED Strip (No Glue or Tools)

This is a replacement stand for the Designer Lithophane Moon Lamp by Frank Deschner intended for use with an LED strip light. No glue or tools or soldering is needed! Once you have all the parts, they friction fit together and if you get the right LED light strip it will fit inside without any connections or soldering.

I used a 5 meter (16.4 ft) Govee RGBIC light strip and fed it up from the bottom and simply wrapped it around the tube using the included 3M tape. All the “tabs” in my pictures are where I folded the strip to use up the slack so the whole 5 meters would just perfectly fit around the tube. If you use a strip with more dense LEDs or that doesn't have individually addressable LEDs you could simply cut it to the desired length according to the manufactures directions.

This model is a remix of the Lithophane Moon LED mod by Shaun Reid that shrinks the base to fit the MK2 version of the moon, adds tabs to the channel for the wire, removes the need for supports on the base, reduces the filament needed for the tube while making it taller, and makes it all friction fit together.

A note on heat: the moon will get warm with this much light inside. I left mine on bright white for about 12 hours and wasn't uncomfortable with how warm it got though. Certainly not enough to melt the PLA.