[JoeDon]

I've been searching for a low cost, high resolution 3d scanning solution. Been following 3Digify's efforts and they just started a Kickstarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects...?ref=discovery

Ends April 17, 2016

Looks very promising.

Any other comparable solutions you may be aware of?

Thanks,

JD

[dharmic]

Yeah, I'm sorry: expecting me to set up hardware (cameras, projector etc) and then asking me to subscribe to their software, with only a month access as a kickstarter benefit?

Nah.

[JoeDon]

Good point dharmic. If I'm reading their Kickstarter campaign correctly, the estimated monthly fee is 40 euro? Looks like they're going for the monthly subscription model for their software. Even so, appears to come in orders of magnitude less in cost than other systems to achieve the resulting resolution, flexibility. I'm new to 3d scanning... haven't found anything that approaches this solution for the cost. Let me know what I'm missing.

[ger21]

I don't think that it will succeed, due to the high cost.

At 480 euros/ year, I think that rules out most hobbyists. Add the cost of two cameras and a projector, and it's an expensive option.

And all you get for your pledge is plans/source code for the turntable, and a discount on the software for a short time?

[JoeDon]

You're right, pretty steep $ for a hobbyist. Perhaps if the subscription were less... $10/mo it would have a better chance of success?

[dharmic]

Indeed. After a couple of years of having it you're up to a grand. And that's assuming they're still around - if not, you have nothing. 80% chance with a startup that it will fail in that time.

Another thing to consider (and I'm the first to admit that I didn't look terribly closely) is whether they are going the way most subscription based services work these days and are cloud hosted rather than a local piece of software running on your machine for the heavy lifting. If so, that's a lot of bandwidth going up and down.