Unfortunately, this piece of work doesn’t seem open source. Well, said that, the scans on Sketchfab loo pretty good:

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An affordable, high-resolution, full color and texture 3D Scanner that can automatically create 3D models of every day objects.

Bringing high quality 3D scanning to everyone

We created the Robocular 3D scanner for people who, like us, were not satisfied with the existing solutions available for 3D scanning. Today, you can either buy a high-quality, but very expensive machine for several thousands of dollars, or you can buy a low-cost scanner but with low-mid accuracy components. Many high-resolution scanners don’t even support color, let alone texture. In 2012, we decided to build a device that just worked, and had the precision of the very high end scanners, at the cost of a few hundred dollars and would be so simple it could be used by everyone. After ten different prototypes, we are now ready to share this scanner with you.

What is it?

Our product is a high quality 3D Scanner that just works. You open it, put an object in it then hit scan, and it will automatically create a 3D model of that object for you on your computer. It’s that simple. The model will be of high-resolution and in full color and texture. Here is a picture:

via Robocular – the 3D Scanner for everyone by Robocular LLC — Kickstarter.

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One thought on “Another 3D Scanner looks for funds on Kickstarter: Robocular”
  1. Here is another good approach to 3D scanning:

    It’s mostly software and uses a neat trick to get more data than just images. Using the inertial sensors data.

    http://phys.org/news/2013-12-smartphone-3d-scanner-scientists-software.html

    https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2013/12/your-smartphone-as-a-3d-scanner.html

    Too bad they have a patent on the technique. Maybe that should not have been awarded because it’s not that specific.
    Maybe using inertial sensors (with high enough sampling rate) to remove motion blur in photo images would be a good thing to add to current photo and video camera’s.

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