Happy New Year,
I'm curious if sensors can be arranged in an effort to get accurate measurements of a kitchen countertop.
I produce stone countertops and measure using expensive but old metrology equipment, photogrammetry and or physical templates. I suppose my question is, can physical templates be made 'smart' to capture 2D or 3D geometry with some level of precise detail?
Any thoughts?
Do you want something like this?
If so, do a Google image search search for "3d scanner".
Thanks for the reply Mike. I've been researching 3D quite a bit. The technology is expensive to get good results. I was thinking something a bit more physical. It may be far-fetched. Old school countertop templates use 3" strips of cardboard that are hot glued and trimmmed to the exact shape of shape of the countertop. We use a giant plotter to digitize those in the shop.
Is there a way to place sensors & targets in that environment, employing arduino or similar to capture detailed geometry.
I went to a demo of this scanner last week:
Its affordable. I also have a structure sensor from Occipital on my ipad. I'm looking for a low cost solution. Our Faro Arms are $20K each and rather old now.. Our photogrammetry kits are $10K each but timeely to process. The DPI-8 laser scanner with a software suite will be $10K each with accuracy oly to .125" I produce 10,000 sq ft of counter top a month. Thats 250 - 300 unique measurement appointments.
I guess 3d scanning is the fastest but to get results < .5mm is rather expensive.
Precision 3d measurements are a physics/engineering/maths problem rather than a sense/control problem.
It's quite likely that many of the commercial 3d scanners contain multiple microcontrollers, but the real cost is in the precision optics and the thousands of hours spent on software development.