Hummmm so after my initial forays in to 3D scanning and printing I decided to look in to how much the tech to achieve this at home would cost.
In all honesty it is still rather new and technology can cost anything from £100 upwards for an actual scanner, which let’s admit it once I leave university makes this form of working rather prohibited.
So I started researching cheaper options to be able to 3D scan at home.
What I found was that you can use an Xbox 360 kinetic as a fairly decent scanner. The cost is also not too bad either as you can pick a fairly decent one up for £10.
The software to run this is provided by Skanect. In theory this should work pretty well but as you can see from the photos above there are a lot of teething problems, of which being not totally tech savvy I really do not know how to solve.
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