A lamp I couldn't buy, so I printed it

I'm Szymon — maker, engineer, and the person behind TanskyLab. I wanted a desk lamp that could reach exactly where I needed it, fold away when I didn't, and look like it belonged on a workbench — not in a furniture catalog. Nothing in stores did all three, so I designed one in Fusion 360: a modular arm held together entirely by printed bolts and nuts, clamped to the desk, with a standard E27 socket at the end.

I've been using that lamp every day for over a year now.It survived being re-posed hundreds of times, leaned on, bumped, moved between desks. Friends kept seeing it and asking for one — at this point pretty much all of them have their own, in their own colors and sizes. That's when I knew it was worth turning into a real product.

The real magic trick? Pair it with a smart color-changing bulb. Cool white when you work, warm amber in the evening, any color your smart home can dream up — voice controlled, scheduled, automated. A printed lamp plus a $15 smart bulb turns out to be a total gamechanger.

Instead of uploading a folder of STLs, I built the tool I'd want as a maker: a 3D configurator where you pick modules, lengths, clamp size and real Bambu Lab filament colors — and get a ready-to-slice Bambu Studio project for exactly the lamp you see, plus a step-by-step 3D assembly guide for your exact build.

DeskLamp is made by Next Real sp. z o.o. — the same team behind the TanskyLab puzzle generators on MakerWorld. Questions? [email protected].