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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. What's the point? by IICV · · Score: 0, Troll
    It doesn't seem like he's really done anything really all that interesting. He's just disassembled a scanner and hooked it up to some legos, and taken multiple photos of a skull with a digital camera. This doesn't demonstrate any nifty mechanical, chemical, or physical properties of anything, it's not particularly artistic, and there's no explosions.

    What's the point of this post?

  2. why!?? by standsolid · · Score: 0, Troll

    why on earth is this so freaking cool to me? i mean it's just a scanner that uses legos to rotate. this is so increibly awesomse. that movie was so cool to watch too i nearly crapped my pants... speaking of which

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