Can anyone recommend a good place to get parts for a homebrew system (available to Canada, at a reasonable price).

Full disclosure, I’m actually looking to build a large 3D scanning system but in terms of movement of the camera heads, I’ve been looking at my printer and thinking that it could use a similar configuration though on a slightly larger scale (rails, with a wheeled+track system for horizontal and large spiraled cylinder for vertical) , but I have no idea where to source these sort of parts.

Any ideas?

  • IMALlama@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Have you ever seen anything like this? There’s no need for a massive beefy frame, all you need is a jig to rotate your subject relative to the camera. You can do this with a fixed camera while rotating the subject around two axis or you can rotate the subject around one axis and the camera around another.

    • phx@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Yeah I was looking at that, but I’m looking for something that scales fairly large (human bodies +) and kinda feel that a vertical track with maybe a rotating pedestal would work best

      • teruma@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        10 months ago

        OpenScan scales. Their electronics and software are great, and you can set up your own mechanics pretty easily. I scaled mine up to can things approximately the size of a basketball, but going to human size should be easily doable.