Glass
6th June 2013, 04:03 AM
I was watching a UK show semi-doco on archeology. Time Team. Good show if you happen across it.
The last show I watched had them scanning a guy in 3D using a hand held scanner. He was being digitised for a digital mock up of a stone statue (bro) that would go on top of a tomb. Some thing that normally would be carved from stone like marble.
The hand held unit was expensive at maybe $100K but the result was impressive. So I got to thinking, I'd like to do something like that and then 3D print myself lifesize.
I've been reading up on a DIY 3D printer and from what I am seeing, apart from some plastic corner brackets to hold some rods together, I think I have probably scavanged most of the parts from a small multifunction printer I dismantled. It was a samsung unit I think. I did it for curisosity and I found it very interesting. I'd recommend it to some of the tinkerers here. There are interesting things inside those devices. Anyway. Got lots of cogs, sprokets, smooth track rails, belts for driving the sprokets, stepping motors, single axis motorised assembley that held the scanner unit. It runs back and forth along the scanner bed shining light and laser scanning. It could carry the 3D print head.
I think I might need a second set of smooth rails and at least some more motors or 1. Some threaded Rod for measured vertical movement. Comptroller unit. The design is not big enough for a life size model. Its a hobbyist unit probably been posted here.
http://reprapbook.appspot.com/
I dismantled it a while ago so the memory is no clear but I think it might have had a metal chassis under the plastic and could be a ready built frame. Maybe just needs a few mods for vertical movement. I will pay attention on the next one I do.
The idea is interesting though. I guess you would build from ground up and maybe in sections that can lock together. Some kind of internal bracing matrix instead of hollow or solid for lightness and strength.
I was wondering where to get a scan done. I've seen some hobyist scanners as well. It would need to be a big unit.
Do you think the TSA would download me a copy of the scan that I can use? Someones already gone and done it?
I think it's a business. Cheap prosthesis in places where people lose their limbs for example.
Oh and vacuum posted about printing 3D body parts in the I seriously want to get a 3d printer (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?62682-I-seriously-want-to-get-a-3d-printer&p=631404&viewfull=1#post631404) thread. Organic ones.
The last show I watched had them scanning a guy in 3D using a hand held scanner. He was being digitised for a digital mock up of a stone statue (bro) that would go on top of a tomb. Some thing that normally would be carved from stone like marble.
The hand held unit was expensive at maybe $100K but the result was impressive. So I got to thinking, I'd like to do something like that and then 3D print myself lifesize.
I've been reading up on a DIY 3D printer and from what I am seeing, apart from some plastic corner brackets to hold some rods together, I think I have probably scavanged most of the parts from a small multifunction printer I dismantled. It was a samsung unit I think. I did it for curisosity and I found it very interesting. I'd recommend it to some of the tinkerers here. There are interesting things inside those devices. Anyway. Got lots of cogs, sprokets, smooth track rails, belts for driving the sprokets, stepping motors, single axis motorised assembley that held the scanner unit. It runs back and forth along the scanner bed shining light and laser scanning. It could carry the 3D print head.
I think I might need a second set of smooth rails and at least some more motors or 1. Some threaded Rod for measured vertical movement. Comptroller unit. The design is not big enough for a life size model. Its a hobbyist unit probably been posted here.
http://reprapbook.appspot.com/
I dismantled it a while ago so the memory is no clear but I think it might have had a metal chassis under the plastic and could be a ready built frame. Maybe just needs a few mods for vertical movement. I will pay attention on the next one I do.
The idea is interesting though. I guess you would build from ground up and maybe in sections that can lock together. Some kind of internal bracing matrix instead of hollow or solid for lightness and strength.
I was wondering where to get a scan done. I've seen some hobyist scanners as well. It would need to be a big unit.
Do you think the TSA would download me a copy of the scan that I can use? Someones already gone and done it?
I think it's a business. Cheap prosthesis in places where people lose their limbs for example.
Oh and vacuum posted about printing 3D body parts in the I seriously want to get a 3d printer (http://gold-silver.us/forum/showthread.php?62682-I-seriously-want-to-get-a-3d-printer&p=631404&viewfull=1#post631404) thread. Organic ones.