For 5 repeated shaped lights, I have two initial ideas:
The first design, illustrated on the left, features wooden light sticks. These sticks can be joined together using a rounded wooden joint, allowing them to be bent and shaped as desired by the user — whether it be a 'W', 'M', or any other formation.
The second design, depicted on the right, presents triangular-shaped lights. Users have the flexibility to arrange these lights into a variety of structures based on their preferences.
I ended up picking the second design because the first one has some technical problems like how to connect light strips together inside the wood. And the second one has more flexibility for the user to arrange the lights.
Material: wood, LED light strip, wires, power supply
Tools used: Band saw, Disc/Belt Sander, CNC, soldering station
I used bandsaw to with a minor guage and clamp to cut the 60 shape slope for each piece, and then used belt/plate sander to smoothen the surfaces and edges.
I wanted to use the router to dig the channel, but considering each piece of wood is too tiny, the shop staff Steve recommend me to use CNC machine. We drew the channel shape a SVG file in Illustrator; uploaded into the CNC software and did the set up:
