project proposal
press fit construction kit
pcb fabrication
3D scanning and printing
electronics design
molding and casting
embedded programming
cnc machining
[04] ~ 3D SCANNING / 3D PRINTING |
This week I 3D scanned a clay hand-mold and 3D printed a Soundcloud waveform. 3D Scanning I decided to 3D scan a piece of clay that I had squeezed into an ergonomic grip. The idea was inspired by a project I did a few years ago to make an ergonomic bag handle. (see here and images below). Back in the day I didn't have access to a 3D scanner so I used some approximation of the serial sections scanning approach in which I cut the clay piece into a few pieces and just took calipers to it. Now, though, I can just hit "scan" and see the physical atoms quickly turn into bits of information. ![]() ![]() I struggled at first to get the Minolta to talk to geomagic. Every time I hit Plugin-Minolta... I gave me an error like "Failed to load Minolta V910." I restarted both the computer and the scanner. Still, no luck. So... I started playing with the Next Engine. I think my clay hand-mold is pretty much the ideal model for the Next-Engine scanner. Everything went very smoothly and it produced a really nice 3D model.
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