Hope this is not a re-post. It's from Jay's Garage.
I have a 3-D printer I use at work all the time and we have four CNC machines. But the 3-D scanners have been too dear for us to buy. This one in the video is $3000, so they're getting more reasonable.
If you're into machine tools and making stuff, this is worth viewing.
That is pretty amazing.
I like that the "printer" can make working models without assembly.
repost...but still equally as cool!
4cylndrfury wrote: repost...but still equally as cool!
Ya...Somehow I figured you'd guys had aleady seen it! 
We have one of those printers at work, and yes - they are very cool. Design a part, hit print before you leave for the day, and you're ready to test fit it in the morning.
The scanner is cool for small parts, but pretty limited. We're looking at a scanner right now that will allow us to do full vehicle scans, but it's ~$80K all in.
DILYSI Dave wrote: The scanner is cool for small parts, but pretty limited. We're looking at a scanner right now that will allow us to do full vehicle scans, but it's ~$80K all in.
ya know, it would be cheaper to buy a revel model and just use that in the 3k scanner
Was that eric Estrada?
Or you could do 3-d scanning the GRM way for next to nothing with a laser level and a webcam!
http://revision3.com/systm/laserscan/
SupraWes wrote: Or you could do 3-d scanning the GRM way for next to nothing with a laser level and a webcam! http://revision3.com/systm/laserscan/
That was awesome. I've been trying to find some way to do 3D scanning for a while now. I should have known GRM would have the answer.
-Rob
instructables.com has a few GRM-ish 3D scanners and printer projects...
problemaddict wrote: instructables.com has a few GRM-ish 3D scanners and printer projects...
I think instructables.com is big enough that you are now legally allowed to call them instructable-ish 3D scanners and printer projects. 
Seeing the complex parts towards the end blew my mind... all made in one casting.
I had to go to the dentist today to get a crown on one of my teeth, and the dentist has a new toy very similar to Jay's - he used a little pen-shaped scanner to make a 3d map of the tooth, loaded the data into a computer, fine tuned it a little on screen, and finally the data was sent to a desktop CNC machine that milled me a new tooth out of a block of ceramic in about seven minutes. It was pretty cool. The ceramic is several times stronger than the porcelain they used to use for crowns, and when I left it was all done - there was no temporary crown required for a couple weeks while the permanent crown was made in a lab somewhere else. He said they even use it for cavities; no more silver amalgam fillings, they just mill a little bit of ceramic to fill the cavity and glue it in.
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