We use these types of things at work, and they are pretty good, but pretty expensive, upwards of £10K.
Now you can make your own, for around $2500
I was quite interested untill I started looking at whats involved LMAO illepall
*a few scawens and sell them to EA
*Many rich tea biscuits for your tea time delights
*a nice new car
*an army of gerbils - always been my personal dream
*many easter eggs and give them to orphan children
*I think i'll print myself a pet Noel Edmonds...
That's quite a project! are you really thinking of starting it?
Edit: All the software is open source! Whoaa! this could be interesting>>>Google Groups
"This idea is not without problems. Due to the nature of this type of
scanning, an object that has an undercut, a surface that cannot be
viewed from directly above (an umbrella for instance), would be assumed
solid below the observable surfaces. The other problem with contact
digitizing is in the case of soft, malleable materials. The probe used
to scan the object can "mash" the material a little bit before the
circuit breaks distorting where the actual vertical coordinate should
be.
...I suppose if you're stuck for a thousand wobbley vases some day it might be usefull lmao! only kidding
If you where to build I can't see the point of going through all the time/trouble if you are only going to use a small tool.
A bigger version, that could handle metal epoxy etc would be the way to go...
also a cutting tool(drill), yep you have them in work, why not build to accomadate that too?
illepall
