UPDATE!:

Scanner is functional now ! vlrev.com/?p=162

There are a few more features I wish to add, such as automated height detection, mount for laser/camera module, and I still need to make it prettier. Its actually more of scanner rig, upon which you can easily add any commercial scanner.

You can find more details on my blog openskan.org
I use parts from openbuilds.com/ !! Much love!

youtube.com/watch?v=pQg2txJlbQw

Fabscan is an affordable laser scanner for Mac OSX and Linux Ubuntu designed by Francis Engelmann.

Fabscan Lite is a derivative that uses printed parts and wood dowel rather than laser cut panels for its construction. The geometry can be adjusted by trimming the dowel pieces and an enclosure is optional (but desirable) because I've incorporated a laser target in this design.

The enclosure is made out of a single sheet of foam board which is scored with a hobby knife, folded and simply hot glued together. The assembly is hot glued in place.

Complete details for the original Fabscan can be found at hci.rwth-aachen.de/fabscan

I've got about $120 usd in this project not including the printed parts.

I've put a video together demonstrating the alignment, scanning and post processing. I'm not an expert at any of this, so please be kind.
***Note, skip to 3:30 in this video to only view the usage and not the setup of Fabscan Lite***
youtube.com/watch?v=Jg9gbO4OBYQ

This is a 3D Scan taken with the prototype Photon 3D scanner from Matterform.

The pillbug scan is one of my own unfinished sculpture experiments I did while designing a new sculpture so the CC is open. Do with it whatever you want.

We'd love to see it printed on whatever printer you have, whether it be a replicator, ultimaker, printerbot, burritobot, or Dimension printer.

The first print pictured is by Mike Hellers and was made with a Makerbot Replicator, 0.2mm Layers and natural/white ABS.

The powder one was printed on a Zcorp and scaled down to 50% by Marthijn

This is a 3D Scan taken with the prototype Photon 3D scanner from Matterform.

The creature head scan is one of my own original sculptures from years ago for one of my personal projects: genpets.com so the CC is open. Do with it whatever you want.

There's a high Poly version and a lower poly version.
The printed version shown was printed by Jon Ritter.

The white creature is printed by Jon Ritter
The Green head is printed by Rolf-Dieter Klein.

If you print it, I'd love to see!

This is a 3D Scan taken with the prototype Photon 3D scanner from Matterform.

The scan is of the Action Log from Ren & Stimpy. We wanted to try something small and see how much of the surface detial we could still capture. We're big fans of Ren & Stimpy and we only scanned this to pay tribute.

We'd love to see it printed on whatever printer you have, whether it be a replicator, ultimaker, printerbot, burritobot, or Dimension printer.

the Brown log print was done by Ethan Williams with an Afinia H-series with Octave grey ABS filament.

The 3D structured Ligfht Scanner is made of a Philips PicoPix 1430 Beamer and a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 for structured light scanning. The Couplings of the Mount are printed, the beams are Aluminium square pipe 20x20 mm

Scanner booth made from laser cut acrylic sheets and 3D printed ABS blocks.

Turn your cheap laser pointer into a line laser using a Lego!

This is a generic hand grip,can convert your motion detector to 3D scanning machine. Either Xtion or Kinect you just only need simply put the rubber band to fit the scanner on top of the grip. Then you can immediate convert your motion detector to 3D scanning machine. enjoy

This item is a food or object, such as paper, pusher. This item was originally designed to replace a missing food slicer pusher; however, I have also used this item to help feed books that have had their spine removed into a HP automatic scanner feeder. The basic idea behind its usage is because the feed of some automatic scanners tends to kick small paper stacks away; this item provides enough equal weight to keep the paper within reach of the automatic feeder.

A custom mount for a CueCat barcode scanner to go above my bin.

May be of interest to others for the CueCat mount component

This is a system for using a Nikon camera with a lens reversing ring to scan 110 film. The reversing ring allows for a short focal length and high magnification perfect for negative scanning.

An Adapter for the Logitec Pro 9000 Webcam to put it on a standard tripod with 1/4" screw.
The nut is also printable and can be glued in the hexagonal hole in the bottom of the Adapter.

This is a 3D scan of a nice and juicy pear made with our Artec MHT (color 3D scanner).

almteq.com/3d-scanning/

You can also view and rotate this model online at viewshape.com/shapes/danch5kme4n.

Plane laser holder to make 3D scanning easier. Room for battery pack and hole for switch.

A 3d scan of a ceramic pumpkin statue made with our Artec 3D scanner ( almteq.com/3d-scanning/ ) turned into an STL.

You can also rotate and view this file online at:

viewshape.com/shapes/arj3ifdn9gl

A great website where you can upload 3D formats for viewing.

A stepper driven 3D-Scanner turntable for small objects.

watch it at: youtu.be/n9UiJGrGvfY

VirtuMake is an Open-Source project. Please donate, if you like my work and want to keep the further development of my Open-Source hardware going on. virtumake.com
Thank You :)

I scanned a statue of a horse with an Artec MHT 3D scanner (color). I added an STL and a WRL file for your choice of 3D printer.

You can rotate and view my model online via the following link:

almteq.com/3d-scanning/

I also uploaded it to viewshape.com where more models are of 3D scans which can be downloaded.

I printed one in ABS on my Up! 3D printer but you have to be careful with the legs and support removal.

This stand is perfect for your embedded computer vision projects! I originally designed it to use with my "LibeTech QR code-based Door Lock" system, but you could use it for lots of other purposes as well. It is suitable for sitting on your desk, or for mounting to a wall.

Learn More about the LibeTech system for which this was designed on my website ( jeremyblum.com/portfolio/libetech ) or at libetech.com

A Film holder to use when scanning fim with a digital camera.

The TinyCylon is a very small (49.5mm x 10.5mm) 12 LED Larson Scanner. It runs off 4 pins on an ATTiny85.

We're able to run 12 LEDs from 4 pins via Charlieplexing.

We've used SMD Components to keep the size small. In particular 1206 SMD LEDs and 0805 SMD Resistors.

The board schematics are available for KiCad.

Kit is now available at phenoptix.com/products/phenoptix-tinycylon-12-led-larson-scanner-kit-smd-soldering-kit still a work in progress though!

This is an easy to print Logitech 9000 camera and Black Decker line laser mount for Makerscanner software.

I wanted to try 3D scanning, but didn't want to spend a whole lot of money to do it. I have a great camera, the Logitech 9000 and a cheap Black and Decker BDL220S line laser from Walmart for $20. Other methods require printing arms to connect the components together, I chose to use 3/8" wood dowel... quick and easy. The tripod mount is optional and can be printed later.

After having trouble slicing the original model due the the use of 90 cylinders to form a cone shape I modified the OpenSCAD file and replaced it with a cone.

This version should slice without issues in no time.

This is a derivative of Tony Busers Hammerhead for Kinect. This should mount on the Xtion Pro Live for handheld goodness.

UPDATE: Edited the AR15 Handle to have a USB cutout where the cable can be fed into. This makes handling the sensor even more convenient.

This is a printable version of the sample scanned head you get with the 3 phase software. But getting it to a printable object is no mean feat it seems. I will try to describe the procedure here

Here's my Processing sketch to interface with the Kinect and capture the depth data and render it as a solid STL file. I've included controls to adjust two thresholds - near and far. This allows you to set up a "Han Solo in carbonite" type effect.

I am not going to hold your hand through setting up Processing and this write up is In Progress, so if you get frustrated, realize that this might not be for you yet. Until I find a way to streamline posting a standalone application that works (currently it doesn't), this is still only for the persistent.

Until Microsoft publishes the code for their KinectFusion project, this is the best I could do to get a directly printable object without messing around in Blender or MeshLab. It's also my first serious coding effort, so forgive any inelegant code. Yes, the STL files are large (15mb) and the detail is hard for the CupCake to print, but it has the outreach potential for people new to 3D printers to create a unique, personalized object by just posing. Before you ask, the STL doesn't seem to take any less time in skeinforge if you use Blender to remove all duplicate vertices first, so I don't bother.

A hangable 3D scanner based on the kinect, arduino, and a stepper motor.

Not working yet, but figured I'd put it up so I could get critiques and suggestions as I work.

The code base is currently in progress, will be borrowing heavily from Kyle McDonald's work for Makerbot, of course. Am sketching it up at the moment, unsure whether I want to do it in Java (very familiar) or Cpp through OF.

v0.2 (files up, not tested or 100%) Defined solution for hub. 4 piece design with bearings.

v0.15 Physical testing and modification of outerJoint and innerJoint. These include adding radial support screws, modified teeth, and refined build methods. The failed code is retained in the build methods with explanation, just for the hell of it.

v0.1 Framework of object and base line openSCAD file. Only parts printed/tested so far are arm joints.

360 degree 3D laser scanner.

Still a work in progress, but I wanted to post what I have so far.

The latest version can be found at github.com/tbuser/spinscan_turntable

I'm also working on software at github.com/tbuser/spinscan

Checkout the spinscan tag to see examples of scanned stuff: thingiverse.com/tag:spinscan

Structure from motion is a class of algorithms that take information about point correspondences between images and use them to reconstruct 3D scenes. While some pretty serious math is involved, no specialist hardware is required aside from a camera.

We've seen lots of structure from motion based 3D scanning solutions already this year, the best known being my3dscanner.com/, but all of them are closed source. This is hard to deal with when I see cool things like Qi Pan's ProFORMA software (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOmzjImsVc&fmt=22) but can't use them or look at how they work. There's been plenty of good open source innovation in laser based 3D scanners, but very little on the software side of scanning, which kind of surprises me given that software is usually the area that people think of as conducive to an open source approach.

So for my computational photography final project last semester I set out to make an open source SFM scanner in Matlab, since a lot of toolkits were already available to do the heavy math part. Unfortunately I won't have much time to work on it this summer, so I decided to release the code now to see if anyone could do anything with it.

The program starts with either user input images or input from a webcam, extracts feature points using David Lowe's SIFT, attempts to remove outliers using the MAPSAC algorithm from Philip Torr's toolkit, then uses Vincent Rabaud's toolkit to reconstruct the 3D positions of the points. From there Liugi Giaccari's implementation of the Crust algorithm is used to find a surface mesh automatically, and a function by Andreas Richter I found on the Matlab file exchange to export an STL file. The end result is that you can (theoretically) go from photo capture to STL output without any user intervention. In practice you might be better off exporting the point cloud and meshing it with Meshlab or some other program.

As of now I have only written a function to extract structure from 2 images using the normalized 8 point algorithm. I think this might require a stereo camera setup, which you might be able to approximate using just one webcam. More importantly, SIFT is not a very good detector for getting dense sets of features, and 2 images will not give you much to work with, so results as of now will be poor to unrecognizable. Fortunately all the code is pretty modular, so switching in a new feature detector or making other modifications should work fine after transposing a matrix or changing some variables.

Vincent's toolbox can use quite a few different methods, most of which are much better than the 8 point algorithm, but it needs either calibration data or more than 2 input images. Implementing affine and metric upgrades would be even better. I'm hopeful that this project will progress to the point where it is possible to make use of these methods, and I'll try to answer any questions anyone trying to add to what's there now might have.

If you're interested in more detail on how everything was done you can read my final project report, attached below.

This is a laser scanning system that I designed to use with DAVID 3D Scanner software. I have yet to buy the software, but the free version really lets you try out everything before you buy...you can at least take some high resolution screenshots of your scans. You can save low resolution files and use meshlab to assemble them.

More info at: david-laserscanner.com/

The first scanner I designed was complicated and used gears and a stepper motor, this one works much better. It's cheaper, requires no electricity to move and has less parts. It even tells you when it's done scanning!

It uses a Taylor kitchen timer, this is a mechanical wound timer that you can purchase at Target, for about $3 PN: 5833-21

When combined with custom makerbot parts, two M3 screws/nuts and a red or green focus-able line laser you have a nice smoothly sweeping laser system.