Recent viewers may have seen the post that I put up a few days ago.
I’m speaking here to explain the title, where it says, “what’s left of it”.
The workshop that’s coming up, after I had my previous and very first taken down, is the one that is about scanning objects, as you could easily assume the topic and workshop name by this post’s title.
What is 3D scanning?
I’m not talking about just slipping a paper into a normal printer and scanning that paper to get a digital copy of what the paper shows. I’m actually talking about what my monologue question is specifically mentioning – 3 dimensional scanning of a physical object.
It is the process of taking the spatial data acquired from pointing normal and infrared cameras at an object, analyzing the data points to arrange them into a digital rendering via a software, and converting the rendering in a digital model that can be produced via a 3D printer ( – just get the file type right, most likely .STL).
So, who produced the scanners and software that will be used in the workshop? A company known as 3D Systems, which had been making major changed since I last saw its website at least a year ago, pre-pandemic. My workshop workspace has access to four scanners; it is not to my knowledge if we have any other scanners available – I would not suspect it.
So what’s that major change? 3D Systems discontinued its online market/shopping platform, stopped producing 3D scanners, has ended support for the scanner hardware around last year from what I recall, and will be ending software support next year.
Just below is a nice history of 3D Systems as a company though.
Here’s an interesting and perhaps thought-provoking fact: the guy who founded that company is also the inventor of 3D printing – once known as stereolithography. Chuck Hull, the man behind 3D Systems, is among those who you may want to give credit to and pay homage to for his legacy of bringing us the basic technology that revolutionizes the art of production through makers movements today.
The scanner that I will be teaching with is the 3D Systems Sense 2 Scanner, as the previous just wasn’t purchased by the workshop’s makerspace. However, the Sense 2 works, which is minimally an ideal circumstance.
The scanner also comes with a software, called 3D Systems Sense, as it probably was made specifically for the 3D Systems Sense 2 Scanner. I’ll be teaching how to use that software too.
Refer to the Maker Studio website for more to come.
If you are an interested student, you may get to view the videos featuring me, myself, and I – that’s three people in one (ah yes, look at me babble).
ONW∆RD 