A few days ago, on the Instructables of the DIY hot station, a user named yenfre showed his 3D scanner GotMesh at ultra-low cost - about $15. What is incredible is that the scanner was assembled from a mobile phone, two containers and milk. Do not believe? Yenfre is said to have won the Pennsylvania University HackPSU hackathon runner-up with this device and is currently entering the 2016 Instructables 3D Printing Contest. According to reports, yenfre uses a clever way to "layer slice" the scanned object, then capture all the images with a camera and finally form a 3D model. Yenfre said that GotMesh consists of two large boxes, which are tied together, with the lids on the bottom and bottom boxes of the top box open, the objects to be scanned placed in the top container; then enough milk is poured into the box. Make it possible to completely cover the object. As the milk slowly leaks from the upper container to the lower layer through the middle hole, the submerged scanning object is gradually exposed. In the process, the camera on the smartphone will take continuous pictures of it. Thereby effectively capturing a 2D image of each layer of the scanned object. An OpenCV python script then converts the images into a 3D point cloud grid, which can be converted to a 3D printed STL file if needed. Throughout the process, in addition to the off-the-shelf smartphones and some brackets, yenfre costs only two plastic boxes ($12) and some milk ($3) for the purchase, which costs only $15. However, it should be noted that although many people may have never seen a milk-based 3D scanner before, this idea has actually been around for a while. Although yenfre wrote python scripts for this 3D scanner, the idea of ​​flooding objects with milk to aid in 3D scanning is not the user's own. In fact, part of the creators of GotMesh is due in part to an earlier project called Milkscanner on Instructables. “Our version is much simpler and more automated and geared towards 3D printing technology .†Yenfre said when commenting on its own 3D scanner. Yenfre believes that this device can be used in addition to milk, other opaque liquids, in addition to other cameras can be used instead of smartphones. Hair Styling Tools Ningbo Beilun Xuanfeng Molding Co., Ltd. , https://www.schelfern.com
