Jun 5 2007Milkscanner V1.0
Friedrich Kirschner has built a 3D scanner called the Milkscanner v1.0 using just a webcam, Legos, a plastic bowl, and some milk. The Legos are used to hold the webcam up, and basically a manual stop-motion technique is used to get the 3D scan. An object is placed in the bowl and milk is slowly added as the webcam takes photographs. The slices are then stitched together into a 3D model. It's cool and all, but it means anything you want to scan you have to soak in milk. Which is perfect, because I really need a scan of some Lucky Charms.
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Reader Comments
1. Danny - June 5, 2007 11:19 AM
First!
Hah.
..that'll be relevant someday.
But seriously, I could make this. If I weren't lazy. And destroying part of the world. And if I hadn't eaten the damned cow already...just my luck..
2. Danny - June 5, 2007 11:20 AM
Good thing Friedrich doesn't live on/near a bull farm...or does he...man, this is just another clever way to molest animals for a 'model'.
3. Bob Saget - June 5, 2007 11:57 AM
Is it just me or do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune?
4. RACHEL! - June 5, 2007 12:06 PM
Hey that sounds awesome. I mean not very vegan friendly to all the vegans out there. Would they let you use soy milk? And what if you want a 3d scan of..well milk? It's kinda confusing a lot!
5. Jab - June 5, 2007 12:27 PM
That's pretty clever! There's one of his head at the end though, does that mean he drowned his head in milk at the end?
Since it's based on color recognition, I bet you could use white sand or something, and you shouldn't scan things that are white.
6. Grammartron the Destroyer - June 5, 2007 12:58 PM
Ahhhhhh!!!!!!
Lego should NEVER have an s on the end.
The plural of lego IS lego.
*wanders away mumbling to himself*
7. Jab - June 5, 2007 1:02 PM
P.S. Way to find something that wasn't posted on boingboing or make zine earlier in the day! I'm sure they'd love this.
8. vanman - June 5, 2007 1:10 PM
Oh My God, Bob Sagat is right, they do have the same tune. Never noticed that before. Anybody else ever notice that "DOPE HAT" by Marilyn Manson sounds like the Sesame Street song?
Anyways, I'm going to try to convince my bosses to let me put together one of these. Not sure if it could come in handy or not, but it seems inexpensive, and hopefully you can convert the 3D models to an engineering 3D file format.
9. BNew - June 5, 2007 2:44 PM
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRING.
10. RandomNigel - June 5, 2007 9:27 PM
How'd he do his face?
11. Danny - June 6, 2007 1:30 PM
Hopefully with a failure of a deepbreathing exercise.
12. TaiOfMine - June 6, 2007 2:19 PM
Mmmm.... milk smothered toys.