Minecraft Redstone Lamp

Instructions

Build is fairly self explanatory. On the shaper make a rectangle of dimensions you want the lamp (in my case 250x250). Then within set the attached redstone template. Scale the template to: 250 - ( 2x ply thickness ) In my case that's 226 but you might want thinner ply. And set centrally inside the rectangle. After this you'll have 5 identical faces as per the picture above. For the base I did the same as the other 5 sides, but simply didn't cut the central opening. This surface became the plate I screwed the lamp fixture to. From then I used the on-machine box joint settings to cut joints on all 4 sides of all 6 faces. This took some time and I've used at least 1x 6mm bit from fresh to bin in the process (so be ready). You need to make sure the depth of the box joints are exactly the depth of the ply, cutting too deep even by 0.2mm will create gaps - as the box joints are in two dimensions. Lamp parts were bought from these guys: https://www.lampsandlights.co.uk/ And I got some white baking parchment from amazon, some spray glue from screwfix, and stuck some sheets to each face. There's no wood glue on this, the faces can be pulled apart to replace the screen sheets. My son is 8 so anticipate some breakage, and frankly the box joints are very tight by themselves - no need. Finally just some little touches, but I've used a Hue bulb so I can change the colour, and the Minecraft players will notice the red cable for redstone dust.