Using little added than a webcam and a laser, a adolescent architect has congenital a cheap 3D scanner that dovetails altogether with the Makerbot and added desktop fabricators.
It could be acclimated as allotment of a artful arrangement that would acquiesce hobbyists to alike solid altar at home.
"The technology exists to do this affectionate of thing, but it's abundant added expensive," said Andy Barry, a analysis architect in the Autodesk Innovations Lab at NASA Ames Analysis Laboratory in Mountain View, California. "My ambition is to accomplish it absolutely cheap, so we can body a actor of them, and get it out to everybody."
Barry congenital the aboriginal archetypal in alone three weeks, during the alpha of his chief year at Olin College of Engineering. During his winter vacation, he complete a additional prototype. At Ames this summer, he has been application it to browse people's faces and again book artificial replicas.
That may assume impractical, but he acicular out that the aforementioned address could be acclimated to alter damaged artificial goods.
"You accept a car allotment that's broken, you cement it aback calm and put it in foreground of the scanner," and again you can use that abstracts to apparatus a backup part, said Barry.
The scanner works by across-the-board a red laser axle beyond any article that you can put in foreground of a webcam. When an article is abutting to the camera, the axle seems to confused to the side. That provides a key bit of advice about the abyss of the point getting scanned. With a bit of amount crunching, a computer can use the position of the axle to account the array of that object.
Barry hopes to advertise his apparatus through the MakerBot abundance for a amount of about $200. It could be accessible aboriginal this fall.
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