3D photo booth

A machine that digitizes a person. This machine will be used as part of an activity at the Montreal Science Centre, organized by Centre Turbine.

Concept

To digitize an object in 3D, you need to be able to shoot it from all angles. Following this logic, the popular technique is to rotate an object on its axis and take constant, low-angle shots. Imagine placing an object on a turntable and photographing it at a constant rate.

On this basis, we use a turntable system, a vertical structure to hold a Kinect (which replaces cameras) and a computer station to process the Kinect information. The rotating surface is turned manually using a gear system.

Once the model has been generated by the Skanect software, we'll print it out using a 3D printer.

This project was built and developed entirely by the echoFab team.

For more details on the construction, please visit the wiki page.

Contact and questions

If you have any questions about the project, please write to us at info@echofab.org

Contributors to this project

Antoine and Yves – Turbine Center
Roby Provost – Software Research
Raphaël Dermers - Technical Design
Marc-Olivier Ducharme - Original technical design and project start-up.
Yoann Ochietti - Technical Design

If your name does not appear, please add it to the list or contact us!

Project completion stages

• Step #1

Gear system made from an old bicycle and hardware.

• Step #2

Gear system test.

• Step #3

Group test & conclusive result.

• Step #4

Model reconstruction in Skanect.

• Step #5

Examples of models generated by our 3D photo booth.

• Step #6

Visitors obsessed by the process.