Trilight is a project I built for ME 203: Design and Manufacturing at Stanford.
My goal was to build a lantern better than anything else available. I created a tripod lantern with three independently adjustable legs that is compact but uniquely versatile. I did all the necessary design work, prototyping, and machining. All metal parts (with obvious exceptions, like screws) were fabricated from scratch.
Features:
My goal was to build a lantern better than anything else available. I created a tripod lantern with three independently adjustable legs that is compact but uniquely versatile. I did all the necessary design work, prototyping, and machining. All metal parts (with obvious exceptions, like screws) were fabricated from scratch.
Features:
- Fully Type III Hard Anodized with polycarbonate windows. Water resistant.
- Multiple brightness modes, selected with a switch in each rubber foot.
- Replaceable, rechargeable Li-ion battery (legs are threaded at the hinge).
- Fully regulated constant-current LED driver. Blinks and automatically reduces brightness when batteries are low.
- Repositionable legs allow a wide variety of uses: free standing area light, localized lamp, hanging light.
- Legs rotate 180 degrees; light can be folded to protect the windows.
- Safety lockout activated by slightly loosening each leg.
