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Arduino 3D Laser Scanner

Introduction
FabScan is an open-source, do-it-yourself 3D laser scanner.
It started out as a Bachelor's thesis by Francis Engelmann, supervised by René Bohne.
Scanner 3D - FabScan
You can nd of cial  project here.

I made my own box from MDF hood sheets and use different hardware parts.
I decided to make this guide to show to you my work.

All credits for Arduino software and computer application goes to FabScan team, so

thank you very much for this great open source 3D laser scanner!

Dev: Francis Engelmann
Date:22/11/2015

Of cial page: hci.rwth-aachen.de/fabscan

WHAT YOU WILL NEED CONNECTIONS ARDUINO CODE SOFTWARE

We will use the "FabScan Ubuntu Live DVD" image that was created by Mario Lukas. You can download it from here, this image has preinstalled the FabScan software. You
can write the image on a ash drive with Win32DiskImager (download link) and use it without installing linux os on your system.
You can nd more options for other operating systems here.

Download "FabScan Ubuntu Live DVD" image

Write it on an empty usb memory drive with Win332DiskImager

Restart your pc to boot from the usb drive

Click on "Try Ubuntu" button

Select FabScan icon from left programs panel. 

Important note! If you use the "Try Ubuntu" option make sure to save your les before shutdown the computer! 

See the below images and follow the steps:

Select SerialPort

Select Camera

File - Control Panel

Click on detect laser (don't put any object in scanner yet) and select 'enable'

Click on "Fetch Frame" and make sure that the blue horizontal line touches the top of the turning table and the yellow horizontal line touches the bottom of the

turning table. Also the yellow vertical line should pass through the center of the turntable. A non aligned camera will result in distorted scans!

FabScan main screen Select Serial Port Select Camera

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Control Panel window Detect Laser Fetch Frame

After setup close control panel window, put an object inside scanner and press the start scan button. 

Tip: You can change the con guration.xml le of FabScan by following this guide.

Saving 3D image:

When scanning procedure is completed you can save the scanned 3D object as an 3D pointcloud .pcd or .ply le. You can also save it as an 3D stl le but this doesn't work to all
platforms. If you would like you can also open an older scanned object by selecting File - OpenPointCloud.

What next? You can use MeshLab for processing scanned object and then print it with a 3D printer!

File processing with MeshLab:

1. Make sure that you saved object as an .ply le.

2. Open le with MeshLab

3. In MeshLab, compute the normals (Filters/Point Set/Compute normals for point sets)
4. Then reconstruct the surface using poisson reconstruction (Filters/Point Set/Surface Reconstruction: Poisson)

The end :D
Many many thanks to FabScan team!!!

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Emre Betik • 7 months ago

Hello, i cant buy this. FabScan-Shield - 3D Laser Scanner What i can use other ? Would you help me ?
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Matti Virta • a year ago

better have david scanner style but how make, or i have go pro style wifi camera how can connect this to software and 2 laser, best
have half round up camera scan up and side 1/4 ball move camera then can scan all parts better but how made.i test only fabscan
basic and resolution HD 1080 camera not good, parts wery groove after scan, need better resolution scanner.
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Leandro Maidana • a year ago

the source is connected to the arduino or the driver l293????
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Matti Virta • a year ago • edited

yes can use better HD resolution camera ,better whayou found have good, how better cam have then accurate scan have, laser
cheap can use many different 5W laser no important, 2 laser better.have many arduino shield one motor, i used zumscan shiel but
no important all working, need shield and A4988 stepperdriver to top on shield only.or this style l298 motor shiel working
too.instructables site have some same system scanners and dimensions at box
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giada weber • 3 years ago

what are the
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Anas Ali • 3 years ago

Hello and nice work you did there
Can you please give me the exact dimensions of the wood sheets and the space between the laser and the object which I want to
scan
Thanks in advance

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Anderson • 3 years ago • edited

Hi! Can I use other webcam and other motor or must be those?
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Jonathan Trahair • 3 years ago

Hi I am not using the fabscan shield so what code do I remove when I add this

void step()

myStepper.setSpeed(1);

myStepper.step(1);

thanks
Jonathan
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Anderson > Jonathan Trahair • 3 years ago

Jonathan, I think that you need remove this code.

/*
//current motor: turn a single step
void step()
{
if(currStepper == TURNTABLE_STEPPER){
digitalWrite(STEP_PIN_0, LOW);
}else if(currStepper == LASER_STEPPER){
digitalWrite(STEP_PIN_1, LOW);
}
delay(3);
if(currStepper == TURNTABLE_STEPPER){
digitalWrite(STEP_PIN_0, HIGH);
}else if(currStepper == LASER_STEPPER){
digitalWrite(STEP_PIN_1, HIGH);
}
delay(3);
}
*/

and add this

void step()
{
myStepper.setSpeed(1);
myStepper.step(1);
}
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adrien • 2 years ago

how and connect the custom hardware thank you and a picture because we can not see and not find editing
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