Clips for IKEA Dioder LED strips - Ultimaker

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Simple and effective clips to mount three of the four Dioder IKEA LED strips inside the left, right and front frame of your Ultimaker 1. The clips do just that: clip to the frame and clip to the strips - no drilling, no bolts. The strips are angled for best illumination. There are two different clips: one larger one (left) goes in the front as this LED strip needs to fit inside the frame. The other clip takes care of left and right strips. (Actually, the side strips just barely don't fit inside the frame opening; I cut 1 mm off the little plug that connects the strip, just short of the contacts. Now it fits.) Easiest to put the side clips on the LED strip first, slide up to frame from bottom, clip over top. For front, snap clips to frame first, snap in LED strip. Snug fit, won't go anywhere. Just as easy to remove. Instructions I looked at some of the clips and figured this would be a nice little project - my Ultimaker is one week old. Tried for minimalistic, hassle-free design - no holes to drill, no bolts, no loose ends. Drew the profile in Sketchup and initially extruded to 10mmm, but these are 8mm which is plenty. First version I forgot to tell Cura to print top & bottom - looks kind of cool tho. Then adjusted LED angle some, rounded corners and put in some cutouts to save print time. Shortened LED connector by 1-2 mm with a metal blade jigsaw so it fits inside the side frame openings. Front strip is inside because the strip is too long to fit in the frame opening. Hacked the IKEA plug and took out the transformer thingy, hot glued it into bottom along with the little distributor. (I don't know enough about electronics to mess with Ultimaker's power supply.) Mounted a switchable power jack near the other inputs. Shortened cables (they were loooong) and ran them down the sleeves. Printed with 20% fill density - plenty. First run I printed with brim but didn't need it.