How-To: Manikin Lamp

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March 20th, 2012 4

Ray Alderman’s Manikin Figure Lamp with iPad 01 made a nice splash when we featured it in the MAKE Flickr pool roundup about a month ago, and Ray (aka Whamodyne) just wrote in to let us know that he’s recently posted a cool Instructable about how to make your own. [Thanks, Ray!]

Wood Manikin Figure Lamp With iPad – A DIY Tutorial

4 thoughts on “How-To: Manikin Lamp”

Dave Brunker (@dbrunker) says:

March 20th, 2012 at 10:39 pm

Kind of looks like one of Gyro Gearloose’s Little Helpers from the old Uncle Scrooge comics.

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sofas | Julian says:

March 21st, 2012 at 1:41 am

Good idea, I have a dummy at home, I’ll try. thanks for sharing.

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