Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MakerFace Scans your Face in 3D at Maker Faire”.
Uh, my name is scott van kampen, i’m the executive director at staten island makerspace, and we brought our steam wagon as well as a sculpture that we call maker face or the face of maker faire. It is a sculpture that i fabricated, that i came up with the idea to do this project and several of the tech guys at staten island makerspace uh really shot it to the next level. For me, the initial idea was to build a sculpture that would take pictures of people’s faces and then morph them together to create a single face. My team that consisted of kevin mahoney, henry van campin, anton suweras and nick devito.
We managed to expand the idea of just using one camera to using seven raspberry pi cameras that we create a 3d model out of your face with and then we’re taking that model and morphing it together with all of the other faces that we’ve taken pictures of. So we’re into the hundreds – if not thousands at this point, the actual uh sculpture took a couple weeks to build. I really i had been playing around with these strips of wiggle board.
I knew really what i wanted to do and it came to get together really pretty quick. As far as the sculpture itself, the team working on the coding and the um, the the python programming to do the morphing they’ve been working on it for months. Probably probably four or five months, the counterbalance arms were really sort of an idea of like adding a industrial look to the very organic look of the eye itself. When you put your face in the eye, it has sort of a almost a womb-like feel to it.
There’S a two inch ball, bearing that’s rated for 170 87 000 pounds at the center of it gives you something to look at, but it also gives you a reflection uh within the space. So you actually see your own face as well as our uh orientation, dots or registration marks that we have inside of that and it’s sort of an organic feel in there, but the exterior of it. I wanted it to sort of have this industrial sort of machine. Look to it, so that’s that’s where i, where we got those sort of swooping arms with the holes in it.
If you’d like to learn more about our project, you can find it on a link at makerspace.nyc. .