agggges ago I saw it being done with a little turn table, android phone and a lazer pointer


turn table turned the object

lazer pointer shon across it (at an angle, so it made a bit of a line)

android phone recorded it with camra

I think you might have had to stick a few little stickers or something on it ?


onice it was done you uploaded to pc and it gave you a 3d model

That looks interesting. I take it you'll have to pay to get a usable model to 3D print from, might give it a go though.

Any prices I've seen mentioned for scanning services was very high, much too much for what I want to do

What was it you wanted to scan?

The project I am working on currently uses 3 different White light 3d scanners to get models of the beaks of all known species of birds. Depending on what it is that you need to scan I could try and wrangle doing it on a lunch break.

As a shameless plug, the project also is doing a bit of citizen science, so you can help "process" the models into a format that we can use to look at bird evolution using the beaks: www.markmybird.org (more about the team and project here: http://macroevolution.group.shef.ac.uk/)

An interesting idea just popped into my head because of this thread...we're struggling to get members of the public to actually engage in the project, as it is a bit involved. Maybe we can offer scanning services in return for people doing x number of beaks....