Volunteer Lab Rat has an interesting project allowing you to build a 3D Scanner out of some common parts. “The following blueprint shows an exploded view of the vital components of the rotating table. I use an R/C servo to rotate the table. It would be easier to construct a table using a steppermotor, but I had an R/C servo on the shelf. The servo cannot rotate a full 360
Old hard drives can be fun, here is another reason not to simply chuck them in the garbage! “Fun with an old hard drive. Took the platters out of many hard drives and put them into one drive. Spin it up to speed and give it a nudge, then watch the fun.”
It is refreshing to see large companies such as Olympus thinking outside the box and making a product that no one else has thought about! “Olympus has announced a prototype of three dimensional camera made from Japanese evergreen wood at Photokina 2006.The camera is made by three dimensional compression of the wood using latest technology. Japanese cypress wood was compressed for the model. The hardness of the compressed wood exceeds
