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The huge diversity of sensors and other hardware which our community now has access to seems comprehensive, but there remain many parts which have made little impact due to cost …read more Continue reading This 3D Scanner Uses A Sensor You Might Not Know About
Apple’s FaceID system uses infrared depth-sensing technology to authenticate people via their faces. It can also be used for simple 3D scanning, and [Scott Yu-Jan] found a better way to …read more Continue reading Building a Better 3D Scanner With an iPhone, and Making Art
We can count on one hand the number of times that we haven’t needed a coat on Halloween night around here. Even if it was fair and sunny the day …read more Continue reading Make this Halloween a Spider-Stomping Good Time
3D scanners aren’t cheap, and the last thing you want to see after purchasing one is bad data. But that’s what [Dave Does] and others were getting from their Revopoint …read more Continue reading Better 3D Scans Through a Slowed Down Turntable
Who wouldn’t want an autonomous drone to deliver cans of fizzy drink fresh from the fridge? [Alex Toussaint] did, and in thinking how such a machine might work he embarked …read more Continue reading A Phased-Array Ultrasonic 3D Scanner From Scratch
Candy-sorting robots are in plentiful supplies on these pages, and with good reason — they’re a great test of the complete suite of hacker tools, from electronics to machine vision to mechatronics. So we see lots of sorters for Skittles, jelly beans, and occasionally even Reese’s Pieces, but it always …read more
Continue reading “Hey, You Left the Peanut Out of My Peanut M&Ms!”
[QLRO] wanted a 3D scanner, but didn’t like any of the existing designs. Some were too complex. Some were simple but required you to do things by hand. That led to him designing his own that he calls AAScan. You can see the thing operating in the video below.
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Using a 3D printer to make high quality parts is a great way to improve the look and appeal of any project. If you want to replicate something exactly, though, you’ll need either a very good set of calipers and a lot of time or a 3D scanner. Using the …read more
There’s plenty of different methods to build a 3D scanner, with photogrammetry being a particularly accessible way to do it. This involves taking a series of photos from different angles to build up the geometry of the model. If you want to do this with something small, instead of a …read more
Continue reading 3D Scanner For Tiny Objects Uses Blu-Ray Parts
If you don’t have access to a 3D scanner, you can get a lot done with photogrammetry. Basically, you take a bunch of pictures of an object from different angles, and then stitch them together with software to create a 3D model. For best results, you need consistent, diffuse lighting, …read more
Continue reading For Better Photogrammetry, Just Add A Donut