Videos - The Coin Bot

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00:00:00	this video is going to be a little bit of a departure from what we've been doing over the last few days namely because we have to take a little trip back in the time machine I actually filmed this footage back in July and I'm
00:00:11	just getting around to posting it now but this is a video where I show you how I installed this ring light above me using 3D printed parts that I designed myself I have this monitor stand in the background here that's attached to the
00:00:23	desk and on the desk you can see uh a lot of the work that we've done so far on the coin bot including the hardware and the electronics here um but you can see that this monitor stand is connected to the desk and the monitor arms stick
00:00:39	out both left and right here and I have another one that's attached to the top of the pole and I'm going to attach a ring light up here and that will have a camera pointed down at the desk so that I can do those downward facing videos
00:00:52	that you've all been getting a little bit used to now the interesting part about this I think is that I need to somehow figure out how to make this ring light attached to uh a Visa monitor stand up here and I
00:01:07	was really challenged by that I didn't know exactly how to to work that out but I figure I have a 3D printer I could I could actually design something what I ended up doing was looking at the design of this uh ring light and connection for
00:01:23	that is really meant to attach to a light stand not to a Visa monitor stand but you can actually take this part this comes apart so you can you can kind of see the format of that but now we have to find some way to adapt this
00:01:44	connection to the Visa monitor arm connection that's up here and originally I was thinking about attaching the ring light in some way that it was flat against this somehow you know making a 3D printed part that attaches those
00:02:00	those two pieces together but since this also has nuts on the back of it I could remove that and I figured that I come up with some piece that attaches these two things together okay so now that I got that
00:02:23	down you can kind of see what is on the end of the monitor arm here and now again we have to try to figure out some way attach this ring light to the bot door arm itself and you can see that they're both male receptacles here so we
00:02:39	have to get a 3D printed part that will attach these two if you look closely at the side of this mounting bracket on the ring light you can see that it has a little riged circle there and inside
00:02:58	that fits this little piece so I thought the first thing that I should try is to measure for that piece and print something to check the fit make sure that I get all the dimensions correct I did a quick uh look
00:03:14	with my digital calipers and I drew that part out here and that's basically what the first test piece looked like and that aligns pretty well with this you can see that these pieces snap together and the next version we're taking this
00:03:31	initial part that we created and just adding to it the challenge of this is that I wanted the two pieces to really be exactly alike except one would be male and one would be female and they would snap
00:03:45	together that fits pretty well there but when I tried to attach this here you can see what I did this is supposed to go to the outside and that measurement is actually the same width as that so we need to
00:04:02	make this a little bit wider in order to fit on that so the third try worked pretty well but again it wasn't it just wasn't quite tight enough so we did some more adjustments to this and I think we ended up with a
00:04:20	final version I was running out of orange filaments so this is actually printed in two different colors and I'm pretty happy with the way this came out put these two parts together
00:05:00	so I think that's enough for this video this is day 13 in a 30-day challenge that I've given myself to post a video to YouTube Every Day in the month of September and as always if you have feedback about how I can do better
00:05:10	either with installing ring lights or how I can make better videos please leave a comment down below but for now that's my two cents thanks for watching everyone have a great day stay awesome