Topic: Printable Turntable Laser Scanner
I'm a long time viewer of this forum but a first time poster. A few months ago I started a project to create a printable 3D laser scanner because it sounded fun :-) The projects starting to gain some maturity so I figured it was time to share it with you guys. All of the plastic parts were designed in OpenSCAD and printed on my Solidoodle 2. All of the software runs on the Raspberry Pi, PC communication occurs over HTTP (web browser). It currently outputs PLY, STL, and XYZ.
The printed laser scanner itself.
The raw output of a scan by just the right side laser.
Photo 5 - Close up with vertex colors applied.
Photo 6 - Zoomed out with vertex colors.
Photo 7 - Final mesh after merging a second scan to capture the top and bottom of the skull, and then applying the Poisson filter in Meshlab.