Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Adam Brandejs on the Matterform 3D Scanner – CES 2014”.
Haymakers, I’m Annika’s unas France reporting live from the floor of CES. I’M here with matter form to learn a little bit more about their 3d scanner, responded after successful indie go campaign and i don’t tell me a little bit about the matter for sure. So it’s a 3d scanner. Obviously, as you know, you can see it in its unfolded state right now, but it actually folds up super small, just like this very cool so for travel. Take it with you, a bowler if you’re visiting your local makerspace, because maybe they don’t have one or whatever you don’t all have to go and get them or maybe your desk is like mine and you’ve got way too many tools on it. You dont have space for another one. We still want you to buy it, so it folds up and packs away. Fantastic. Well, tell me a little bit about how it works, build area, tech, specs, sure so.
Hardware wise, is actually really simple. Going over the text box. It’S about 7 inch diameter here up to about 9 inches tall, then it goes scan so anywhere within that volume we’re getting 200 micron resolution, which is actually pretty good, because most 3d printers that are fdm have 500 micron nozzles. So, even though they have like hunter micron layer height, we actually have better resolution than most of them.
How it works is there’s a turntable here that rotates about 720 x and then there’s two lasers and a really simple little webcam same sort of webcam that you would have at home and after it does a full rotation. It raises up again last sit with more lasers, no, and it just keeps going until I can’t find the object anymore and then it’s like okay, fantastic. So on tell me a little bit about some of the challenges of you know a successful campaign.
So when you’re a maker, you generally have this idea that when you make one of something it cost us much and when you make 10 of something it cost less and you do volume and you assume it’s going to continue in that pattern. You make more, it costs less, not how it goes at all when you start making more. After a certain point of about a hundred, it starts costing a lot more, which we did not expect because we live in a imaginary little world inside our heads.
So will you actually worked on creating this machine yourself correct? I did I did the circuit boards and learned how to design USB hubs kind of trial by fire learning. By doing it’s, what we’re all about fantastic. So I’m at CES – and I’m just kind of asking all of the makers that I talked to an old machine builders you know – is making going mainstream. What’S your take on that absolutely there’s so many more tools now that existed five years ago or ten years ago, hardware wise, but just you know software and knowledge wise. I mean you know, make magazine instructables all these places were someone can go and learn. I mean you know: the barrier to entry is so much lower now and portable.
You want to design something you can just do it. You can pick up the tools and they’re not expensive. You know 3d printers and $ 100,000 anymore.
You can build one at home from scrap materials for 600 bucks. You know 3d scanners and thirty thousand dollars anymore. You can go buy one for 400 or 600 bucks.
You can even design them yourself. A few arms fantastic will Adam. It was so nice talking to you, have a great CES .