Decorative LED lighting usually comes as a fixed product you cannot print, tweak, or repair, and plant-shaped lamps are no exception. LightLink tackled that with the LuxPlant Mini, a 3D printable plant lamp inspired by the Fluora plant, standing 20 inches tall with a 14 centimeter pot. The finished plant has dark branched stems and six translucent oval leaf diffusers sitting in a white cylindrical pot with artificial moss over the base.
The electronics side runs on an ESP32 with WLED firmware, and the maker recommends a DigQuad or Gledopto controller with built-in ESP32, fuses, level shifters, and resistors. Every part snaps together and assembly is described as fairly easy. With a plug and play controller, only the leaves need soldering. Everything fits on an A1 Mini printer, and the tall stem version works on bed slingers using support bridges between the stem. The shown plant was printed in eSUN PLA+ White.
Several choices stand out to me. The Mini is fully modular, with rotatable leaves and stem. A bill of materials comes as a linked spreadsheet, the printed pot can drop into a real ceramic pot instead, and the LightLink app syncs the light effects to music without using a microphone. Watching the leaves pulse, sweep gradients, and shift rapidly through blue, purple, cyan, yellow, red, and multi-color modes in time with electronic music looks great, and the leaf diffusion quality deserves the praise it got.
One open question: a fully solderless version using solderless connectors on the LED strip is still in development, and the maker warns any solderless connection will eventually fail. Files go free on MakerWorld once that is done, with early access at $5.
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