Neopixel Ring Articulating Mount

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What's better than Adafruit's individually addressable smart RGB LEDs - an articulating mount to house them! This assembly is designed specifically to hold the 12 LED RGB(W) NeoPixel Ring, which can be purchased with Product ID:2853 from www.adafruit.com/product/2853. The dimensions of this ring are 3.68mm outer diameter, 23.3mm inner diameter and a length of 325mm. The board fits snugly inside the ring. The components have holes for 3mm screws that will need to be threaded with the appropriate sized tap. The ball joint can accommodate a 30 mm screw with a nyloc nut instead of individual screws. I've added a diffuser that snaps onto the LED mount, which is best printed in translucent clear material such as PETG with supports enabled. The NeoPixel mounts were designed to fit into a miniature photo studio, more information on this project can be found at github.com/electronlove/MiniStudio and youtube.com/watch?v=95q27Tv82Dc. Although the mini studio has not been uploaded to Thingiverse yet, any sturdy box will suffice. The NeoPixels are controlled by a Raspberry Pi, which is connected to a flask-based web server for a RGB color picker to control the NeoPixels. The code for this project can be found at github.com/uozuAho/pilights and has been modified to run with Adafruit Neopixel Rings as a systemd process at startup. Additional information on this project can be found in the web folder of github.com/electronlove/MiniStudio.