Been working hard on this as well as redoing a few things and working out some bugs.
What Sith themed cabinet with a rotating monitor and rotating control panel would be complete without a rotating Sith Holocron. I decided to make a Topper for the cabinet and a Sith Holocron seemed like a good item and while I was at it, I might as well light it up and have it rotating.
I'm using a 6" Lazy Susan and a small geared motor for rotation, I originally used a mouse wheel to drive the Lazy Susan but that didn't work out too well.
Another thing I quickly realized, was that the motor was very loud because the plywood was magnifying the sound of the motor, so I did my best to isolate the motor from the plywood by using strips of rubber. The rubber was from pipe coupling I had leftover from a plumbing project, I also cut a plug from a hunk of rubber to replace the mouse wheel. It was just a matter of pushing it down on the motor shaft and it holds in place with no problems.
The next thing I needed was lights, I'm using 4, 360 degree red LEDs, again I used what was available to mount the lights. I cut the bottom off a 12oz Pepsi bottle, drilled some holes and wired the LEDs up, I used foil tape to hold it in place.
I know it doesn't look very pretty but it works and no one is going to see it anyway.
Finally, I had to build the Holocron, I wasn't trying to make it look like a prop, I just wanted it to be presentable. I cut 4, 1/8" plexiglass triangles, painted them red using glass paint. I found some symbols on the internet and made transparencies out of it and glued that to the triangles. I then cut out cardboard, spray painted it gold and glued that to the front of the triangles and finally put a glass ball at the top.