Modular Organic Skeletonized Light Column [No wiring project]

It's a column of color! Desk light or floor light, your choice, and all you need to light it are generic fairy light strings you can get from Amazon. Each stackable section is made of 3 onion like layers: A thin clear PETG inner sleeve, and 2 organically skeletonized shells each of which could be printer in clear PETG or mix-and-matched solid colors to achieve different aesthetic properties. The height of the tall cylindrical parts are 207mm so they will just fin in Prusa and Ender machines.

I've personally tested 3 variations of the middle layer so far. (I've tried my best to take pictures of how the different materials look when lit, but they never really do it justice) 

Clear PETG

• Lets the most light through, and shines the brightest
• Strongly showcase the color of the LED lights without competing with their color
• The multi-level organic pattern is noticeable, but the most subtle.

Thin-wall White PLA (2 walls no infill)

• Still lets a good amount of light through
• The layers of pattern are more pronounced and feel deeper. 
• The white takes on what ever color is shinning through/off it. So it always matches whatever color you set it to.

Solid Wall Colored PLA

• Lets the least mount of light from the LEDs through
• The feeling of depth with the multiple levels of organic shapes is maximized. 
• Specific colors of PLA and LED light can be paired together to enrich each other more then if it was just the color of the LEDs alone.
• Other pairs of non-optimal colors might not looks as good
• Looks good when the LEDs are off.

This picture (as well as the other pictures in the gallery of the column 3 units high) has the clear PETG in the top unit, thin-walled white PLA in the middle unit, and solid-wall green PLA in the bottom unit. setting the LEDs to white is a good example of how they can effect how it looks .

The LEDs

In all of the pictures of this project shown I'm just using an off-the-self string of fairy lights I got off amazon, so I didn't to anything like wiring at all. Specifically I am using the 66ft version of this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086LC36Q3 . The hole through the base is sized to let the USB plug of that string through.

In order to get 66ft of string lights into a 10"tube I tightly wrapped the string around a handful of bamboo skewers slid the whole wrap into the center PETG sleeve, and removed the skewers one by one.

The 3 unit tall pictures are still just using the same 66ft string of lights just accordion-ed out to fit across all three. 

If you want to wire up some LEDs of your liking there shouldn't be any reason why it wouldn't work.

Printing

There isn't actually much to say here other then that the center sleeve needs to be printed in vase mode with 0 bottoms or tops, and a healthy brim is a good idea. 

Also, avoid using infill in areas that will be transparent or translucent.