Articulated camera arm to table lamp adapter

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<p>As the PrusaMini does not have a full frame, I had to solve two problems which I did not have with my Prusa i3 Mk3S and my Ender3Pro: Where to mount a good light and where to mount the camera. I decided to combine both problems and came up with getting one of the cheap desk lamps that are offered at Amazon from different suppliers under slightly different names.</p> <p><a href="https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06XX7JMYJ">https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B06XX7JMYJ</a></p> <p>These lamps come with a nice black frame of sufficient size, so they do not mechanically interfere with the printers parts, have adjustable brightness and even adjustable light tones (which sounds pointless for lighting a 3D printer, but I have to say it is kind of nice to have both warm and cold light depending on your mood, the seasons or whatever else drives you).</p> <p>Now that I had a good light, I only needed to design an adapter from the lamp arm to the articulated camera mounting system, which I had already used successfully for the Mk3S and the Ender3Pro.</p> <p>The cool thing about these lamps is that they have a quite long slot in the vertical part of their arm, which can be used to mount the adapter piece at almost any sensible height.</p> <p>Printed in original Prusament orange PETG, the color scheme of the printer and the lamp with the articulated arm fit perfectly together.</p> <p>Instructions:</p> <p>Print the adapter part (which is actually identical to the part that I used to connect to the frame of the Ender3, hence the file name) and print the counterplate part. Use a M3 thread cutter to cut threads into the two holes of the counterplate. Push the counterplate into the slot of the lamp arm from the front side (yes, it is a bit of tight fit, I should have made it 0.1mm smaller, but I could get it in without using too much force). Attach the adapter plate from the backside and mount everything together with two M3x14 screws.</p> <p>Now you can use all parts of the articulated camera mounting arm published already in my earlier post for the Ender3Pro:</p> <p><a href="https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/33457-logitec-c270-articulated-arm-to-ender-3-adapter">https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/33457-logitec-c270-articulated-arm-to-ender-3-adapter</a></p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>Printed on the PrusaMini in Prusament orange PETG, but will likely work with any other material as well.</p>