Chapter 6. Scan-O-Tron 3000

When the 3D scanning software ReconstructMe came out, I was really excited about scanning people, but the plethora of office-chair-spin 3D prints shared online left me a little disappointed. I wanted more!

Some people were doing full-body scans, but it involved painstaking work using mirrors or splicing together multiple meshes. I set out to devise a way to improve upon that and get a clean scanned mesh that can be ready to print in minutes. The result: the Scan-O-Tron 3000. (Why 3000? Because it’s better than 2000!)

Build this fast, full-body 3D scanning ...

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