Building an automated photogrammetry scanner
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- COMPLETED SCANNER: 4:57
MUSIC:
Boy in space - Cold : / cold
French 79 - Diamond Veins: / diamond-veins
I've been wanting to post this video for quite some time, but I didn't because I wanted to make a more professional edit. Never really got time for it, so heck with it, this video will do.
Up until January this year I had never programmed anything really, in fact all my experience of programming up to that point was very very basic maxscript. I had never worked with motors, or building electrical things with wires nor designing any kind of circuit diagrams. I didn't know the difference between watts, volts and amperes, and to make anything work with a touch screen seemed to be an impossible task. Additionally, I didn't know shit about CAD or industrial design.
Yet I decided to go all in and try to build myself an automated photogrammetry scanner after my dad had introduced me to something he was programming. I sat every night until 4am for weeks trying to understand Arduino and programming in general, many many hours of googling, looking at youtube videos and having all night calls with my dad. And I took every chance I could when I was rendering and my computers were off limits for any kind of 3D work.
This machine is not yet done, there are still some programming to do, some features to add, some problems to solve, and some fine tuning to take care of. But it is operational and it works like a charm. This project is a milestone for me. I've learned so much, not only about programming and electronics, but also about photogrammetry in itself.
One could argue that I've been wasting my time building a machine that doesn't actually solve any problems, it just saves some time and manual labor. Well, a lot of it actually. But it's been a great journey and it has opened my eyes to so many new possibilities. I've learned to question everything I know about logics, and I've turned my brain inside and out trying to figure out the math to make everything work flawlessly.
The amount of problems that I've faced, and somehow solved, is crazy and I've given up several times along the way. I'm proud of what I've done.
A huge thank you to everyone following my Patreon channel, your support have been truly invaluable.! Also I want to thank Martin from Texture Supply for cheering, keeping the inspiration up and helping out with the build, as well as my father for saying up long nights over the phone trying to solve my coding errors.
Bravo! I thought it was just a turntable at first, but my jaw dropped when I saw the whole camera move. This is a next level commitment to automation :)
Do i smell a tutorial about photogrammetry coming from your channel :D
Hah thanks, always gotta try to push the limits, if only a little bit :D
Right! So cool, me wanna! 🤤
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Viz Guru Do you have the files for the parts anywhere, like a GitHub or something?
Was schematics or code ever released for this?
Either way bery nice, looks like an extremely good model at the end for very little time spent
Props on essentially automating scanning in the void
Hey! Awesome video. I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this based on other comments I've read, but do you have schematics available for this rig? I am very much interested in building one myself and would be willing to pay on Patreon / send you some money. I'm just a freelancer looking to animate using Blender. I've done some of my own scanning this last week using the void method and have a 3d printer. Buying some basic files / schematics / a BOM would save me a ton of time in research. Hoping to hear back from you! Excellent work and I wish you the best of luck moving forward.
Hey, im on the same journey , did you have any luck so far?
Mass manufacture this.. i'd buy one
This is amazing! Looks like the detail/quality captured is great, but you also have that huge usable volume.
cool but you should stop for each shot to avoid motion blur ?
No need when using a strobe flash :-)
Great selection for kinematics! This makes sure that slop on one axis does not couple to the other. Also you learned all the skills necessary along the way. Bravo! You should feel proud!
The 3d printer sure does have excellent reviews. shop.prusa3d.com/en/3d-printers/180-original-prusa-i3-mk3s-kit.html
What's the laser cutter you have?
PS. This is some next level stuff!! Congrats. What programming language was it you learned?
can you share any files related to this.. arduino/cad. id love to build one myself
That's sooo nice, are you going to make a tutorial or share the whole or partial project?
Oh my days this is amazing!
😍
love it..
whats the total cost?
that's sick! u should kickstart the hell out of it. I'm already sold !
Part of me (small part) is just pissed because I've wanted the determination to make one myself for some time.
Mostly though I'm just embarrassingly giddy - Fantastic work!
Great job! I'm working on a similar project and I can really appreciate and relate to what you wrote in the description. The journey alone is worth it my opinion. Keep challenging yourself, we're are capable of incredible things!
Hi.
How did it go with your project? :-)
What is the accuracy of this technology?
This is so useful. Are you planning on creating a complete guide on how to make one?
Is the blueprint on your patreon??
awesome. had to whatch on mute though
Any updates on this project? Such a nice work, please share it, don’t throw it in the bin 🙏
Appreciate the support :) I did throw it in the bin, it's partially dismantled because I needed the parts for other things. However, I am making a new one, not fully autonomous, but it's portable (fits in a small flight case) and it captures real reflection data. :-)
Still prototyping, need to replace my shitty 3D-printed designs with milled aluminum to get it nice and sturdy.
Tiny suggestion, I suspect the orange colour of the LP filter holder will effect the light and could cause (however subtle) “colour contamination” as it bounces onto your subject? Probably best to cover that with a coat of highly reflective silver or white paint? Nonetheless, completely in awe of how cool and ingenious this rig is, well done sir!
I really respect that amount of work and learning you put into taking this from nothing to an almost entirely self-contained unit. Is there anywhere I could look at photos of the setup as a whole? I'm in the process of building a very similar style machine. From what I see in the video, you have your object on a continuous rotation while the camera takes photos. I have mine setup to rotate a few degrees and then take a photo before repeating that until it completes 360º. I was worried about potential blur in the photos with continuously rotating the object. What are your thoughts on this?
Very good and clever rig!
Could you explain/share some wiring details about sony camera remote, especially from usb side?
I'm in the proces of adding a A and a C axis to my 3d printer so I can automate the protogrammetry proces using my 3d printer.
Super cool! Question: if you were going to do it again, what would you do differently?
Helt otroligt rig! Skulle gärna betala för det jobbet du lagt ner om du sålde 3D modellerna och en guide med referral links till alla komponenter och delar.
When I saw the 1st video you've made about your process and problem-solving skills, I knew that you are capable of such feats and much more... I was also thinking while watching the previous video about how to make this automated and versatile... glad to see that you did it and congratulation for all the new knowledge gathered in the process... I am pretty confident that you will make great use of it in the near future in many other projects.
Ayy haha you got the same 3d printer I got! Also going to start making 3d prints for my camera! :D Nice scanner btw! Very impressive stuff :)
really awesome work man, congrats!
what is the arduino kit and the other modules that you use btw? i'm trying to build one myself but a much simpler and smaller scale.
Jesus man you are both crazy and genius !!! Dope project
Very nice, but shouldn't the piece stop rotating whilst the camera changes location ? Or it's using that time to rotate it to it's initial position ?
I saw this on patreon, just fucking awesome..
I don’t like the song
Okay
omg you're so smart, this is awesome work , congratulations
I have made a similar device but mine is not as clever as yours. Superb.
you sir have my respect. amazing!
Now if you could only sell the entire setup into a consumer friendly format
You rocked that arduino, man! Is there anything you cannot do?
What did you use for camera control ?
Wow, congratulations on the amazing work and patience! That looks so so useful for fast captures and great quality, thank you for sharing!
very neat... and cool results too...
You never fail to amuse us with your creativity jojo 🔥
That’s insane...wow 🙏🏻
Unbelievable work dude!
Congratulations!
Really impressive work!
Nice!
Nice one bro!!
respect!
six six six
Amazing. Well done!
Super cool man!
Cool idea. What software do you use for the photogrammetry model?
It looks like it's Reality Capture
Its a pity we have to endure the music instead of a proper audio vocal commentary.
Wasn't meant to be a tutorial or something.
@@TextureSupply Fair enough. Great project though and it left me wanting to know more.
kewl~~