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Making a 3D-Printed Laser Cat Toy
This is a quick guide on how to make a 3D printed cat laser toy, integrated with Home Assistant via ESPHome. I mainly followed the setup and wiring from wtadler on Thingiverse with some slight modifications. Required material 1x Mini 5v Laser Pointer Red Diode. Cheaply sourced from AliExpress (example) or Amazon. 2x SG90 servo motors (example) 1x ESP32 or ESP8266. Anything goes, I personally used an ESP8266 NodeMCU v3 I had around (example) Jumper wires or normal wires 5v power supply (i used an old USB-A cable) 3D printing the case .stl files can be downloaded from wtadler on Thingiverse. I printed them with standard white PETG: ...
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