This is terrifc higher performance solution for a very low budget price.
My first thought was the
PiScan can make a 1:1 scale 3D model of a face in about an hour.
Use this a mould to make a latex mask.
Paint it up in line with the images and you can make a look-alike in a few hours.

Is it me or am I the only one expecting rooms full of Ebon/Liz impersonators at the next Jam. !!

reminds me of the thing from one of the spider man movies

I found this in the Raspberry Pi contest at instructables:
http://www.instructables.com/contest/RaspberryPi/
P.S. Please vote for the stepper motor controller (Me!)

3D fax machine is finally upon us!
“Scotty, beam me up!”
A few minutes later, a 3D printed Kirk showed up on the destination.
“Very funny, Scotty!”

12 pis is still too much for me, though. I’d rather pay 40 bucks for little painted statue of me, even if I have to stand still for a while.

I spotted this a couple of weeks ago and thought it was really awesome :-D

Printing the output via http://www.shapeways.com/materials/sandstone would be cool.

I wonder what the scanner’s maximum ‘framerate’ is – could it be used to create low-FPS fully 3D animations?

I remember some papers a few years ago about doing interesting tricks with cameras and DLP projectors where they used the projector to illuminate individual pixels and then recorded the results on a very simple camera (some tests just used a single-pixel light sensor) and they were then able to mantmatically manipulate the result to present the image as seen from the point of view of the projector.

With cheap DPL projectors available now like this one for $300 (854×480 85 lumins http://www.brookstone.com/hdmi-pocket-projector?bkiid=World_Landing_Page_Electronics_Projectors___Screens|CategoryWidget|801143p&catId= or this one for $430 (1280×800 200 lumins http://www.brookstone.com/200-lumen-pocket-projector-pro?bkiid=World_Landing_Page_Electronics_Projectors___Screens|CategoryWidget|864129p&catId=)

I wonder how you could combine a number of pi/cameras with a few projectors for illumination and quickly do a very detailed scan

the combination of controlled lighting and even modest cameras should produce very interesting results and would solve the problem the author described of scanning people’s backs

Wow !! That’s 40 Pis and cameras on the Xmas list :O)

I was reading his instructables and spotted one thing that screamed out at me.

He has a central CIFS (windows share) server mounted on all pies (*smile*) as /server. And in his listening script when all the pies are triggered at the same time they will try to access the server to read one file /server/options.cfg.

He would be better keeping a local copy of this file that is updated when servers updates (possibly stored in RAM, to avoid wearing out the writes on the SSD’s).

Because 39 machines all trying to accessing the same file at the same millisecond – won’t and this will delay some photos from being taken at the same instance.

I personally would have done something like this to keep a local copy of the config file in RAM, that is automatically updated every at most 10 minutes (random)
#!/bin/sh —
# maximum time between updates is 600 seconds (10 minutes)
timespan=600
# random number from 0 to 65536
randnum=`echo “obase=10; ibase=8; ” \`dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=2 2>/dev/null | od -N 2 | head -1 | awk ‘{print $2}’\` | bc`
rand_sleep_time=`expr $randnum % $timespan`

sleep $rand_sleep_time

test /server/options.cfg -nt /tmp/local_options.cfg
if [ $? ] ; then
cp /server/options.cfg /tmp/local_options.cfg
fi

I guess this could also be used to do timeslice shooting

http://jeremiahwarren.com/blog/2013/06/30/how-to-create-a-diy-matrix-bullet-timetime-slice-rig-using-a-ceiling-fan-and-a-gopro/

Neil

I could see this being used for a party event. Instead of those photo booth deals, you and maybe a friend could slide in and get a figurine of yourselves. It’d be a cool souvenir of things like weddings, birthdays, etc.

NOW we’re talking! This shows how to do 3-D optical input to the Pi’s honkin’ GPU (for such a low-cost device) to take advantage of its power, and in parallel in this case (both within the GPU and among the multiple Pi boards). As we say in the Navy, Bravo Zulu!

When I was working on my Master thesis on $50,000 Silicon Graphics Iris 2400 3-D workstations that could do a whole 30,000 Gouraud-shaded polygons per second (vs. the Pi’s 40,000,000) in 1986, a guy in a garage (naturally) down the road from us in Pacific Grove (adjacent to Monterey) had fashioned a 3-D capture rig using a single camera and a motorized turntable. Our professor had his head scanned and, hours of work and millions of pixels translated into a 3-D mesh file later, we had a very rough, barely-recognizable likeness of him that could be spun around virtually on the Iris 2400s in response to user-controlled input. This Pi-based version is sooooo much better and faster and, even using 40 Pi boards, is infinitesimally cheaper.

Hmmm… wonder if a single Raspi and camera plus a turntable could be used to 3D-scan an inanimate object?

Hi Richard,

It is a wonderful device, I would like to scan by little son as well, but it is really cannot let him hold a position. My first step to scan a toy model instead, but I failure to group the image into 3D as clear as you have, could you share with me what software you use to group the image into 3D model? Thanks a lot.

some diagnosics added:
ping
reboot
shutdown
update
quit


#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
import struct
import fcntl
import subprocess
import sys
import os

Hello,
I would like to have such a box installed for 3d scanning reasons. Is it possible to buy this? Knowing that my DIY-attitude is high but qualification level may be far to low to do so on my own. Thanks for comments.
Best regards,
Bernhard