So far, I’ve mostly been experimenting, and mass producing small versions of my daughter’s cuddly toys.
I created a full tutorial over on hackster.io, check out this link for further details. Simple! Transfer the pics to your computer then use Autodesk ReMake to work its magic. The way it works is this: You turn the crank, and for every complete revolution of the turntable the phone’s camera is triggered by the headphone volume 50 times. So I listened, and for the newest version there have been a few improvements including a height adjustable cradle and a base that is now split into 4 pieces with dovetail joints.
The first version was designed to be printed out in large pieces (I have a Type A Machines Series 1 with a cubic foot build volume) and one of the biggest requests I had was to split the model up into smaller pieces. So I designed it to be almost completely mechanical.Īll you need is your smart phone (in my case an iPhone 6 plus), the included headphones, and a turntable printed out. The inspiration for this design came from a simple desire to create easy consistent 3D geometry, I wanted to remove human error and wobble! I was also aware that it should be kept simple. More information on photogrammetry can be found here.
With photogrammetry, anyone can have a play. Even the open source scanners that are available require quite a lot of knowledge to get them working properly. Now anyone can have a go at 3D scanning without having to spend hundreds on a scanner. Sounds like magic right? Well, it’s not magic, this is a reality. Memento was renamed ReMake when it left the beta phase. Photogrammetry has been around for a while, but it wasn’t until Autodesk got involved with its Memento beta program that things began to work consistently. In short, it gives the ability to create a 3D mesh from multiple photographs by comparing similarities between the images and triangulating them in 3D space. It can also be used to recover the motion pathways of designated reference points on any moving object, on its components, and in the immediately adjacent environment. Photogrammetry is the science of obtaining measurements from photographs, especially for recovering the exact positions of surface points. As the cost of 3D printers continues to drop, our Designer of the Month Daveyclk aspires to lower the cost of 3D scanning as well! His design can be made for around $30 and makes use of a cell phone camera.