Eclipse Lamp Devlog #6 - Creating the CAD model for the Bottom Shell of the Lamp with the Raspberry Pi and Pan Servo

Today was an AMAZING break from all the software I’ve done so far. I was focused on making the CAD model for the bottom shell of the Lamp housing. This housing would hold the Raspberry Pi and the Pan servo responsible for rotating the top Lamp shell around. This model was pretty straightforward to make as I used the premade model I had from onshape I made in Devlog #5. It was a bit rocky though because when I got my Raspberry Pi case imported from printables, It didn’t fit properly in the compartment and didn’t leave room for the servo to center. I first when with 100mm x 100mm which I made beforehand, then 120mm x 120mm which still didn’t fit the servo in the center (It was very close), and after that I was extremely fed up so I just said “screw it” and went to 150mm x 150mm. This size gave me a considerate amount of space for everything to place in. Then I reverted to Tinkercad as it was faster for me and after placing the raspberry pi case, I placed wall holders for the servo to glue onto physically (The servo was centered this time). Sadly this model got even more complicated because when I went to slice it to get a gist of the time consumed, it started at 8 hours and 46 minutes, then i removed the back wall to set it at 6 hours and 52 minutes. After that I wanted it faster so I kept removing the unnecessary walls from the raspberry pi case and I was able to get the time down to 6 hours and 4 minutes, which I was very happy with.