Printable Turntable Laser Scanner (Page 3 of 5)

yeah thingaverse and post links to softwares and instructions plus how to order kit. it will be awsome wathing makerbot see all the orders for a better mouse trap come off their own group page LOL

who me? yeah said so long ago. Im down for a kit. who wouldnt be, its way better than the makerbot scanner plus dont require windows 7 or newer (which even makerbot techs dont know as its stated on their site). and at a fraction of the cost

Hey guys, I've uploaded some figures showing the design of the mainboard and how it connects to the Raspberry Pi.  What's not shown is the splitting of the 12V from the barrel plug to feed into the A4988 (top left of the perfboard diagram) and the LM2596 to step down the 12V to 5V (top right of the perfboard diagram).  The little blue square things on the perfboard diagram are screw terminals where the lasers, motor, and power are connected.  The big blue things at the top are variable resistors.  I've also included a figure showing the initial PCB layout (and the previous photo of the fully assembled mainboard).

I've decided that there's enough interest to warrant a small Kickstarter or Indiegogo project where you would get easy to assembly kits (no need to solder components or purchase things like resistors, transistors, regulators, and such).  You would require you to print the plastic parts but the full kit should only require a screwdriver for assembly.  If you guys are still interested in building it from *scratch* let me know, and I'll help you with that (I still have 9 or so PCB's that can be utilized).  Otherwise, I should have a campaign going in a little bit.  I will still be uploading the printable files to thingiverse but the design could change (be improved) some between now and the end of the campaign.

Let me know what you think!

Perfboard Figure

Initial PCB Design

Photograph of PCB and fully assembled mainboard

Let us when the crowd funding project begins.  That way we can get a jump on the early bird special.  Lol.

I couldn't help but pick up this neat little Santa model at the grocery store today.

Can you do a scan on something with sharp edges/corners? Like a big bolt n nut maybe. Would like to see how it handles it.

The bolt has a round head so I stuck it in some clay.

That is awesome! Nice work

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whats the latest on this cool tool? wanting to spend my Christmas money on this and maybe couple other things soon

I raised $212k on Kickstarter. Email me if you want tips/feedback - username at gmail.

I underestimated how long it would take to get Amazon payments approval and Kickstarter project approval.  The project won't be ready by Thursday.

Let me know I would like 1 if I can.