Archive for the ‘3d scanner’ tag
3d Scanner for Architektoon
I have been working on a really exciting project last year, that’s in it’s final stages right now. It’s a 3d scanner based on laser triangulation ( laser what? ) for a project called “Architektoon!”. There’s sourcecode, instructions and pictures, available here, here and here.
Altough the technique has already been developed in the 1970′s, I still had to figure out a lot. The quality of your scans depends a lot on the resolution and image quality of your camera, the number of rotations, focus and proper calibration and framing. So it helps to have a trained eye for video. The biggest challenge was to build something robust enough to be transported over and over again, and to be used by many different (non technical) users. Altough I frankly must admit we haven’t really left prototype stadium yet, we’ve had two scanners operating on our workshop recently, and even without me being present.
It’s funny how you can stay under the radar for a long time, and then somebody suddenly just puts up a short youtube clip with your name on it ( actually, it has my face in it too ) and it pops up on my first page of google already :0)