OctoLapse camera holder with NeoPixel light by lynspm

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

This is a holder for a RasPi camera equipped with a lens such as this or this. While fully compatible to the standard RasPi camera, the dimensions of the board are different and, due to the lens, it is also considerably heavier. This is the main reason why I dropped the original idea of simply adapting NERDVille's OctoPrint - FULLY Adjustable Camera + Light Rig because this would require the heavy camera to be moved with the print bead. Instead, I decided to install the camera at a fixed position and use OctoLapse to stabilize the timelapse.
NERDVille's OctoPrint - FULLY Adjustable Camera + Light Rig still remained the main source of inspiration. Thank you @NERDVille! However, except for one part (the camera rotational head), I redesigned all parts on my own (using OpenSCAD).
The camera is available with two different lenses: one with 4mm focus and one with 6mm focus. I tried both. They have slighly different dimensions, hence two variants of the case.
The neopixel ring is one with 12 LEDs. Use four pins to mount it. You might need to redrill the holes in the case top to 2mm.
Case top and bottom snap together. No glue required.
The arm is inspied by the Anet Raspi Camera Mount by SkyRunner and may or may not be useful for other printer models. As the design is modular, you can always combine with other attachments. I redesigned the arm to have a much lower height to accomodate for the additional mounting elements required (on the photo, you still see the longer original part). connect.stl is used to connect the camera rotational head to the arm.
The camera rotational head part is taken from @NERDVille. After taking the photo, I mirrored this part so the screw heads are now accessible from the right side and the nuts are on the left. I used one M5x20 and one M5x15 screw.