Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner

Mario Lukas’ girlfriend is an archaeologist. Part of her job is to catalogue relics from digs and Mario deduced that what she could do with is a handheld, portable 3D scanner. So, he decided to build one using a Raspberry Pi 2, a Kinect scanning bar and a PiTFT. He’s used a library called Libfreenect on the software side and is currently at the proof-of-concept stage. You can see a video of the proof-of-concept (you might want to mute the audio – it’s a bit offensive on the ears) and read more here, including a link to instructions to help you compile the library you need.

1 comment for “Portable Raspberry Pi Kinect 3D scanner

  1. 15.6.2015

    How interesting and I’d like to attempt this project too.

    Please keep us informed, perhaps make it an Open Software poject where other developers could help out?

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