Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Stand with Ring Light

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I started playing around with OctoPrint and it's incredible. You can get so much more out of your printer with OctoPrint, I highly recommend it. It runs on a Raspberry Pi, and I had a spare one with a basic Raspberry Pi camera sitting around, so I installed the OctoLapse plug-in and got some nice time-lapse videos out of it, but I needed a stand for the Pi camera. I designed one in Fusion 360 that just slides around the Prusa LCD screen and it worked well. I ended up replacing the standard def camera with the Raspberry Pi HQ camera and redesigned the mount for that camera, which has your standard 1/4-inch tripod mount on it. Next I needed better lighting, so I bought [this ring-light](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091G15BWL) for $10. I redesigned the camera stand a second time to hold the ring-light, but I needed to remove the flexible gooseneck from it. I modified the ring light by carefully cutting away the flexible gooseneck holder right below where it goes into the light, then cut the wire to pull it free, and then re-solderied the wire. In the end it came out great, I was really happy with it and I'm getting nice time-lapse videos that are well lit. I'm including the Fusion 360 file in case anybody needs to modify it. Keep in mind I'm not great at Fusion 360.