Death Star illuminated - Mood (lamp) Death Star

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Disclaimer: I am providing electronic circuit layout, and the housing for the electronics. The given license covers exactly those parts. The Death Star itself is not covered by this license. Please respect copyrights and purchase the Death Star STL at the given URL. I am not affiliated with the creator of the Death Star. I do not receive anything from the creator of the Death Star in case you make your purchase! MoodDeathStar Repository URL: https://github.com/pstimpel/MoodDeathStar A moodlamp and a Death star once had a one night stand... Video explaining this project: https://youtu.be/01-m4wZ4NJw Download Death Star stl https://pinshape.com/items/30200-3d-printed-star-wars-death-star 3D Print the stuff Using my Prusa I3Mk3, I printed the 2 shells in 0.15mm. The inlays were printed in 0.25mm. I was using filament from DasFilament.de. I used silver for the shells, and anthracite for the inlays. Once you approach the end of the led strips, use your solder iron again, and connect the cable of strip 2 to strip 3. Drill a hole of 7mm onto the stand, and into the mounting point of the bottom half of your death star. Cut 2 pieces of 40 cm of cable from the 3A capable one, and another piece of 40 cm from your low current cable. Feed the 3 cables from the bottom through the stand, through the mounting hole of the lower death star half into the inner part of the death star. And then to the left inlays to the bottom half. Program your Arduino Inside the Arduino folder there is an example. Nothing fancy, but maybe a start. The illumination was taken from the many examples they deliver with the FastLED library. I simply added some control for the trigger button and the brightness adjusting potentiometer. Create the death star We work from top to bottom. Add the first five inlays (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to the top shell - the one without an hole in the middle. In the inlays 6 to 31 add 4 holes using a 10mm drill, kind if a circle shape around the middle hole is our goal. Make sure the holes lines up, so you create kind of 4 channels for the led strips. Create the death star's stand Drill a hole of 7mm onto the stand, and into the mounting point of the bottom half of your death star. Cut 2 pieces of 40 cm of cable from the 3A capable one, and another piece of 40 cm from your low current cable. Feed the 3 cables from the bottom through the stand, through the mounting hole of the lower death star half into the inner part of the death star. Assemble the death star Run a first test. Working well? Use some super glue to connect both halves of your death star. Mount the "ball" on top of the stand. Use some super glue to fix it there. Use 2 M3-12mm screws, and mount the top stand to the bottom stand. Brag with your new illuminated Death star.