Mini Commodore 64 1702 monitor with LED provision

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I've printed up a miniature Commodore 64 for a coworker, and it came out well. The thing is, this coworker has a thing for putting LEDs in his projects. He's got a menorah for 5mm LEDs and a miniature version of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story. With the Commodore monitor, he started talking about hollowing out the model and putting in a 10mm LED to backlight the printout of the Commodore boot screen. I thought - wouldn't it be better to modify the model to support the 10mm LED? I started with the beautiful original monitor model from the source, loaded the STLs up in Sketchup, and worked on it. My goal was to make it printable with an absolute minimum of supports. I've accomplished this. The only part that requires supports is the front, and that'll only be around the edges. The back can be printed with supports, but that flat spot is thin enough that any printer that can bridge reasonably well should be able to handle it without a problem. I expanded the bezel trim for the front so that it is a light press fit - the original design had quite a bit of space around the edges, so I had to glue it into place. There's a small hole in the rear to route out the wires for the LED. Note: I've found that SketchUp is pretty weak at dealing with small details on the sub millimeter scale, so I model things in SketchUp using meters. It's far less quirky, and when I export the STL, most software assumes I was using mm and it loads into your slicer no problem.