Desk Lamp

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I have been looking around for a lamp project that would work for my desk as I desperately needed a lamp so I could work on things outside of daylight hours and have no overhead lighting in the room which is more of a windowed in porch than a real office. The vesa mount lamp by @nnorton00 took desk real estate into consideration, but I am using a tv with larger mounts as a screen and so this was not an option without figuring out how to redesign the complicated mount. This mounting base has been modified from the first one I did to add a threaded ring that can be installed under the desk to keep it from wobbling around, and I tweaked the longer arms from the original thing by @HyeVye so that I could run wires inside of them. I had to completely remodel the original lamp head on the vesa mount lamp for my needs. I tried printing the 3 part design, but I found that I couldn't get the pieces to fit well together, and while installing the fasteners it started to crack along the layer lines. The new one has no room for a physical switch, but I have installed a touch sensor which toggles the light on and off. For lights I am using WS2812 RGBW indoor 5v lights. I will try and draft up a rough schema for the wiring design in a few days, and I have a few scad files I will include too, but I need to do a little cleanup first as they are a bit of a mess. ~~The code for the ESP is far from finished, but I will see about getting that together and published too. Honestly there are probably better already ready projects out there. Eventually I think I will be setting up diyHue and making the lamp a hue lamp.~~ I decided to use [WLED](https://github.com/Aircoookie/WLED) as the software for the lamp rather than writing my own. My tpp223 touch sensor worked out of the box with it (identified as a push button not touch). I still plan to setup the hue bridge but that is outside of the scope for the lamp. The electronics box I had originally included never got printed. I redesigned it to be simpler and much faster to print. I mounted the ESP onto a 70x30mm bread board and wired it up to a usb c jack which will provide power from a left over 2 amp phone charger. The 5v and ground continue on to the lights and contact switch at the other end of the breadboard. I have also included the scad files used to create this thing so feel free to tweak it for your needs. 27 Jan 22 Some small adjustments were needed to my first attempt at the controller housing. The updated version should work, although you may need to make sure you leave enough room on the usb c adapter to be flush with the outside when soldering it to the pads on the perf board. 28 Jan 22 The box I landed on for the controller was built using the NopSCADlib library instead of the ultimate box maker as I had originally planned so I removed the remix since those parts didn't make it into the final product.