by William Galliher
Hello everyone! We are the 3D Body Scanner team at North Carolina State University, and we are here with another blog update to show two important things. Pictures and progress! That’s right, we have a mid-project update for you all and a bunch of pictures of the team, our work, and where our project will be once we have completed it. The sponsor for our project, and the eventual home for our booth, is the Makerspace team at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library.
The Hunt library is a showcase for engineering and technology, boasting large, open spaces provided by the bookBot system that houses all of the books in underground storage. The MakerSpace within the library hosts multiple 3D printers, and is dedicated to educating the patrons of the library in 3D technology. In comes our team. We told you about our purpose, to make 3D scanning fun and educational, in our last post.
Here are three members of our four person team.
From left to right: Dennis Penn, William Galliher, Austin Carpenter
The three of us are standing in our prototype scanning booth, which can rotate around the user. The other member of the team is below, where he is getting scanned using the alpha prototype of our software and station.
Jonathan Gregory, standing in the station
But don’t worry, not only do we have pictures of our team and the library, we also have progress. Our prototype station was able to successfully scan Jonathan, and the output mesh is below.
The scan of Jonathan Gregory
Pretty good for our alpha demo. We even managed to successfully scan the chancellor of our school, Chancellor Randy Woodson. Not only did we get a successful scan of our chancellor, we also got a small figure printed out!
The 3D print of Chancellor Randy Woodson
So that concludes this mid project blog post. You got to meet the team, and even got a sample of what we are able to do so far. We cannot wait to finish this project and be ready for our Design Day near the end of April. We will be back then with a final post on our project. Thank you for reading!