A few months ago, I posted about a Pi / camera enclosure I had built to capture a timelapse of my garden while remaining cool in the Arizona summer heat. It was pieced together from an electrical junction box and a salvaged fan from a laptop.

Well, that fan died after just a month or two of use. Also the original design was very problematic to open / close. More than once the whole camera cable got ripped out of the Pi when I dropped the cover.

In the meantime, I had invested in a 3D printer.

So why not print a new enclosure? This one has a dovetailed sliding front door, a rain cap, a side-mounted camera, 1 or 2 Pi Zero WH boards (I'm going to put together a bit of an enviro monitor in the other one), and a spot for mounting a Noctua 5V 40mm fan.

I am using an Arducam IR camera but it will also for the Raspberry Pi HQ camera.

I wrote a program to automatically capture the images and convert them to a daily timelapse video. The daily timelapses get automatically uploaded to YouTube at the end of the day. I have also published this source code to Github.

The STL files, parts list, and printing instructions are available on Github.