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Build a Rotisserie Scanner With Legos

Posted by michael on from the yes,-the-plural-is-legos dept.

WalkingBear writes "All you 3d geeks out there should take a look at this. This guy has built a 3d scanner (scans 3d objects resulting in a 2d cylindrical image map) out of a flat bed scanner and Lego. Also has a turntable style for use with digital cameras."

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  1. Temporary mirror by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 5, Informative

    That inner page of his is like 660KB all in, so I can see this guy's server taking a crunch real soon. His JPEGs were uber-unoptimized, so I've optimized them and put up a temporary mirror so you can all see the joy that is the rotissery scanner :-) It will disappear in a few hours or so.

    Rotissery Scanner Mirror

  2. The catch... by EvilFrog · · Score: 5, Informative

    The funny thing is, if you read the article you'll see that he's gotten better results by just stitching digital photos together. The scanner has actually given him rather poor images (he's got a nasty light leak), and you need to be able to put the thing you're scanning on a spit...