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The remote control for the floor lamp across the Reading Room will never again wander away into the clutter:

Floor lamp remote holder - in use — Floor lamp remote holder – in use

The magnet in its back snuggles against a steel disk embedded in the holder:

Floor lamp remote holder - installed — Floor lamp remote holder – installed

A magnetic field visualization sheet revealed the magnet:

Floor lamp remote holder - magnet field visualization — Floor lamp remote holder – magnet field visualization

Extract the remote’s profiles with a contour gauge:

Floor lamp remote holder - pin contour gauge — Floor lamp remote holder – pin contour gauge

Trace the outlines and lay smooth curves around them with Inkscape:

Remote profiles - Inkscape curves — Remote profiles – Inkscape curves

They needed a slight lengthening to account for the gauge pin diameter & deflection, but this isn’t a precision project.

Do the same with a scan of the front face, import the curves into OpenSCAD, extrude them, create a solid model of the remote from their mutual intersection, then add a cylinder to punch the depression for the steel plate:

Floor Lamp Remote Holder - solid model - bottom — Floor Lamp Remote Holder – solid model – bottom

The chonky model corners stick out too far compared to the stylin’ curves on the real remote, but I made the holder shorter than the remote specifically to avoid fussing with such details.

Subtract the remote from a nicely rounded cuboid and knock out a cylinder for the pipe it’ll mount on to produce the holder:

Floor Lamp Remote Holder - solid model - Show view — Floor Lamp Remote Holder – solid model – Show view

I briefly considered a circumferential clamp around the pipe before coming to my senses and making the pipe diameter 2 mm larger to accommodate a strip of double-sided foam tape.

The magnet gets a ferocious grip on the plate and I defined the result to be All Good™.

The OpenSCAD source code and SVG paths as a GitHub Gist:

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	// Floor Lamp Remote Holder
	// Ed Nisley – KE4ZNU
	// 2025-03-29

	include <BOSL2/std.scad>

	Layout = "Holder"; // [Show,Build,Remote,Holder]

	BaseAngle = 30; // [0:50]

	/* [Hidden] */


	RemoteOA = [92.0,40.0,14.5];

	PoleOD = 16.0; // lamp pole

	MagnetOD = 20.0; // steel plate under magnet
	MagnetOffset = [11.0,0,-2.0];

	TapeThick = 1.2;

	HolderOA = [60.0,35.0,PoleOD/3 + 4.0 + RemoteOA.z/2];
	HolderRadius = 5.0;

	Gap = 10.0;

	//———-
	// Define shapes

	module RemoteBody() {
	union() {
	intersection() {
	fwd(RemoteOA.y/2) up(RemoteOA.z/2)
	linear_extrude(h=RemoteOA.z,center=true)
	import("Floor Lamp Remote – outlines.svg",layer="Top Outline");

	zrot(90) xrot(90)
	linear_extrude(h=RemoteOA.x,center=true)
	import("Floor Lamp Remote – outlines.svg",layer="End Outline");

	xrot(90)
	linear_extrude(h=RemoteOA.y,center=true)
	import("Floor Lamp Remote – outlines.svg",layer="Side Outline");
	}
	translate(MagnetOffset)
	cylinder(d=MagnetOD,h=RemoteOA.z,$fn=434);
	}
	}


	module Holder() {

	difference() {
	cuboid(HolderOA,anchor=BOTTOM,rounding=HolderRadius,except=TOP);

	down((PoleOD + 2TapeThick)(1/2 – 1/3))
	yrot(90)
	cylinder(d=PoleOD + 2TapeThick,h=2HolderOA.x,center=true);

	up(HolderOA.z – RemoteOA.z/2)
	RemoteBody();
	}

	}

	//———-
	// Build things



	if (Layout == "Remote")
	RemoteBody();

	if (Layout == "Holder")
	Holder();

	if (Layout == "Show") {
	color("White")
	Holder();

	color("Gray",0.75)
	up(HolderOA.z – RemoteOA.z/2 + Gap)
	RemoteBody();

	color("Green",0.5)
	down((PoleOD + 2TapeThick)(1/2 – 1/3))
	yrot(90)
	cylinder(d=PoleOD + 2TapeThick,h=2HolderOA.x,center=true);

	}

	if (Layout == "Build") {
	Holder();

	}

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