It is quite easy to grab a pre-built tabletop LEGO Christmas tree from Amazon. But British inventor and engineer Ruth Amos chose the tough way by creating a human-scale, six-foot-tall Christmas tree. Ruth Amos took an official LEGO Christmas tree set as the base and 3D printed scaled-up replicas for every piece for the tree structure. This project was a collaboration with the maker Ellis Ware.
They printed majority of the pieces using a Bambu printer, while the decorations and presents were produced on an Mk4 Prusa to achieve finer details. The entire tree required about 50 kilograms of filament to 3D print all the pieces.
The tree’s candle-shaped elements are specifically 3D printed to fit in remote-controlled tea lights. Its light-up baubles enhance the tree’s festive charm even more.
Just like the original tree, the construction involved assembling multiple layers of the tree using interlocking LEGO pieces. These layers were stacked on a wooden cross base with metal pole that held them together to create the giant LEGO Christmas tree. The addition of the pole and base offered stability to the tree and allowed it to be moved to different places easily.
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The LEGO Christmas tree included most elements in the green color but the red accents in form of heart decorations and red baubles gave it a nice contrast and pop of color. The star topper in yellow had gaps to fit in wired LED lights. It was the lighted additions that transformed the tree into a visually compelling decoration for the holiday season.
This 3D printed LEGO Christmas tree is a well-praised project over the web since its creation last year. Replicating the design is feasible as you can find all the required design files through the Instructables page. If you are a die-hard, 3D printing enthusiast, you can give it a try whether on a more smaller scale or even bigger as per your own capabilities.
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