I built my lamp the other way around, where the front view is the front. Because of this I cannot follow Mike’s directions exactly but I decided to leave the lamp as it is and just turn it when it’s time to make it move.
I had huge problems with the rest- and pose positions because they were different in the object- and edit modes and for some reason I coudn’t reset anything with alt. I tried to change them manually so that I could at least build the upper arm so that it would actually be attached to the lower arm and not float in the air in the opposite direction.
The lamp works now but the rotation of the stem is really constrained without my actually seeing where the constraints are. I have set the upper arm accidentally using the world cordinates. I will probably need to change that but I have decided to see how it works first.
