Stepper Motor and Arduino Motor Shield

I was moving along on the 3D scanner and I needed to wire up the stepper motor.  I bought this stepper motor #324 from Adafru.it - it seems to be a great motor.  I bought a motor stepper driver from sparkfun, but I never hooked it up, nor soldered the pins I needed to it.You …

A new beginning

I have certainly not posted enough on this blog.  A lot of changes happened between June last year and now; I changed job locations and have just now gotten the swing back to normal.  It's time to pick it back up again.3D Scanner - I've been working up a new design that uses angles instead …

3D Laser Scanner Update

Good and bad news.The first is bad... I have yet to be able to get DAVID to run on Parallels with the PS3 camera. I think I'm going to have to get a camera that will work with Windows to begin with and try it.The good news is that, after talking with my brother-in-law (genius …

3D Laser Scanner Equipment

I wanted to show some of the different equipment we'll be using for the 3D Laser ScanneHere is the PS3 camera - I haven't modified it at all. I did download the drivers (see yesterdays post) so that it would run on my PC (well Windows running on Parallels).Here are the three lasers that I …

3D Laser Scanner

Since I've decided on the 3D printer I am going to get I thought I'd then turn to the 3D Laser Scanner to get it completed before the printer arrives.I'm using a Mac and that limits my 3D scanning to whatever I can run in parallels or a Windows machine I don't own.I have a …