
Maybe we can get the 3D printer guy to hang out with the 3D scanner fellow and we’ll be another step closer to replicators. Here’s a 3D laser scanner using a Quickcam Pro 4000 camera, s100 SMS controller card and LSG 35 geared motor. Link.
Maybe we can get the 3D printer guy to hang out with the 3D scanner fellow and we’ll be another step closer to replicators. Here’s a 3D laser scanner using a Quickcam Pro 4000 camera, s100 SMS controller card and LSG 35 geared motor. Link.
VERY interesting. I looked in on a company that had a product that did something very similar, but on a production scale. They went under, due to lack of funding and then had their IP bought up, webpage here: http://www.dphotonics.com/
Here is another project from May 2001… It is approaches the problem by rotating the object instead of the laser.
The goal of the project was to build a low-cost laser line scanner out of household and off-the-shelf parts that could be used to construct a reasonable point-cloud scan of a recognizable object. From the point cloud, existing software could be used to create surfaces, and hopefully solid models as well. Unfortunately, after a quick look at the site, i could not find the perl scripts that assist in the project…
http://thaumaturgy.net/~etgold/scanner/