Originally shared by Fabio Ferretti
Little early preview of my 30$ scanner.
it use a chinese arduino nano, a chinese 5V mini stepper, a line laser and a usb camera.
the code is c#.Net: it use openTK, DirectShowLib.net and is based on the opensource freelss (heavely rewrited).
That is awesome!!! Where could I get the plans to make one? And the code?
it is not finished yet:
mechanical +/-80%
Firmware +/-70%
SoftWare: +/- 30%
i’m at a stage where i try to add some visual tuning to the scan process (camera exposure, laser threshold, scan clipping rect, etc) to get less noise.
i’m also waiting a laser order to add several (3-4?) to the build.
but the big part is the implementation of a point cloud to STL conversion algorithm ( if someone can point me a good one?)
What type of file does it map the points to now?
It already exists and is open. Google bq cyclops
i don’t save the map point to a existing file format for now, just a custom text based file for debug purpose.
Thx, i didn’t know that the cyclop source are already available .
Last time i’ve check, i only found the stl.
Could you post the stl files?
when it wil be finished 
Ok…I’ll stay tuned then!
