TARDIS Apple Time Capsule -> Bedside Lamp!

prusaprinters

<p>This is a mod for <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:104028/remixes">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:104028/remixes</a></p> <p>I gave away my Apple Time Capsule only two nights ago, and had no use for its home of five years. So I gussied it up, covered the windows with white paper, stuck a LIFX inside, and it's a perfect bedside lamp.</p> <p>Requires:</p> <ul> <li>TARDIS Time Machine (this is a "remix" of it)</li> <li>Cheap hardware store E26 lamp base</li> <li>LIFX Mini (the original is too tall, and probably too hot)</li> <li>Sheet of paper cut</li> <li>Superglue and scissors</li> </ul> <p>My base measured 36mm diameter at the narrowest and about 40mm diameter at the widest. It was super hard measuring something so much larger on the inside.</p> <p>You can remix my model for your base with OnShape:<br/> <a href="https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea336d8d59d01b9f6d00f31b/w/26595e1fea1370c8a1e648d8/e/7a17920d0e8edf44b43698e9">https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ea336d8d59d01b9f6d00f31b/w/26595e1fea1370c8a1e648d8/e/7a17920d0e8edf44b43698e9</a></p> <hr/> <p>Funny story: I first tried to do this in Shapr3D on my iPad, to give direct modeling a go and challenge my preconceptions about it. I figured a throwaway one time model would be a good use case. Shapr3D is the ONLY remotely good CAD on iPad.</p> <p>NOPE. Once you get everything right (which takes so much longer without a keyboard), fillets and all, you can't resize things consistently–I lost my mind trying to get this to work. You can't go back and tweak a dimension and play it forward–once you extrude, it's done.</p> <p>Then I remodeled it in Fusion 360, figuring I really need to get practice with it too. It's still miserable on the Mac, especially with a trackpad–unresponsive and too much right clicking, and no use of the double click drag gesture. Awful.</p> <p>So then I went back to OnShape, my go-to and love of my CAD life on a Mac, with a trackpad. I redesigned this three times, and had it done fastest in OnShape, and tweaking it after the fact was trivial &lt;3</p> <h3>Print instructions</h3><p>The tolerance are tight but perfect–do some test prints of the middle if you customize this for your lamp base. (Use PrusaSlicer to slice everything below the transition from the smaller diameter base to the larger diameter–print at least 3mm to test fit.) Print slightly smaller if your prints tend to go large or develop elephants feet on the models (hard to push into the base).</p>