The principle behind this scanner is the typical of a line scanner. A laser beam intercepts the object to be measured and a camera, positioned at a known angle and distance shoots a series of images. With some trigonometry considerations and optic laws it is relatively easy to reconstruct the Zeta dimension, the measurement of the distance between the object and the camera.
You can use my Light Up Halloween B circuit board to light up a candy dish or anything you desire. This one is for Halloween with a skeleton wreath and a pumpkin bucket for the dish. In this circuit I am using what I call an interrupter. It has both the infrared detector and emitter […]
The Kinect is a peripheral for the Xbox 360 console that allows a user to interact with the Xbox 360 without touching a controller. A general description of the Kinect is that it is a depth camera. This means that you can place objects in front of it, and it will compute the distance from […]
Optically amplified rubber band twang.
