3D-printed 3D-scanner
Introduction: 3D-printed 3D-scanner
About a year ago I bought my first 3d-printer and became addicted to 3d-printing and manufacturing my own designs and products with it. Since then I have printed/build my own CNC milling machine with my 3d-printer (https://www.instructables.com/DIY-3D-Printed-Dremel-CNC/) and love the fact that I can print new ways of manufacturing myself. About 2 months ago I saw a video of someone who designed his own 3d-scanner which made 3d-models from photos and I decided that it would be a fun project to, for the first time, design and program a 3d-scanner myself.
After about 2 weeks of modeling, 3d printing, soldering, programming and testing I finished building my 3d-scanner and must say that I'm pretty happy with the result. 807
In this instructable I will walk you trough the process of building your very own 3d-scanner yourself.
The way this 3D-scanner works is as follows: When the 3D-scanner is turned on, the display will show a menu with the options for 'rotate' or '3D-scan'.
When the 'rotate' option is chosen, the user is shown a second menu screen with the option for 'free rotate', where the user can rotate the disk with the joystick (which for example is useful when taking pictures of an object from different angels). The second option is 'Auto rotate', where the disk will slowly rotate 1 time (which is useful for when the user wants to make an 360 rotating video of an object).
When the '3D-scan' option is chosen, the user can select the amount of pictures where the 3D-scan will be made from (the more pictures, the better the quality of the created 3D-model)
Step 1: Item List
The following items are needed when making your very own 3d-scanner:
Materials:
* PLA filament (about 250 grams)
* Acrylic plate (4mm thick and at least 150x150mm in dimensions)
* M3 x 8mm screw (14x)
* M4 x 12mm screw (2x)
* Hot glue
* Super glue
* Tyraps (20x)
Electrical:
* Arduino Uno (1x)
* S28BYJ-48 5v stepper motor (1x)
* ULN2003 driver board (1x)
* SG90 9G Mini Micro Servo (1x)
* Arduino LCD Screen (1x)
* Arduino joystick module (1x)
* PCB breadboard (1x)
* Bluetooth camera remote (1x) (https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/1005001431282608.html)
* Dupont wires (20x)
* Arduino upload/power cable
Software:
* Arduino Software (for uploading the code)
* Autodesk Photo Recap (for creating the 3D-model from the scanned model)
Step 2: Tool List
The following tools are needed for manufacturing this project:
* 3D-printer
* Laser cutter (part can also be produced with the 3D-printer)
* Soldering iron (for soldering the power and ground cables to the PCB)
Step 3: 3D-printing
3D-printing plays an very important part in producing the 3D-scanner, that's why I will go into further detail about the print settings, time, etc. The following parts need to be 3d-printed:
* Body
* layer height: 0.3mm
* line count: 4
* infill: 20%
* bottom and top count: 4
* Speed: 80mm/s
* Support: everywhere
* Support overhang angle: 30 degrees
* print time: +/- 11 hours
* Steppergear
* layer height: 0.3mm
* line count: 4
* infill: 20%
* bottom and top count: 4
* Speed: 50mm/s
* print time: +/- 0.5 hours
* Cover
* layer height: 0.3mm
* line count: 4
* infill: 20%
* bottom and top count: 4
* Speed: 50mm/s
* print time: +/- 1 hours
* Circle-gear
* layer height: 0.3mm
* line count: 4
* infill: 20%
* bottom and top count: 4
* Speed: 50mm/s
* print time: +/- 4 hours
* Phone-holder:
* layer height: 0. 98