RWB/Hand Scanner
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Project Proposal
Formal Definition
We need a handheld laser scanner for suitable for medical use. This includes intra-oral use, along with digitizing the stumps of amputated legs for prosthetic fitting, etc.
Motivation
It is technically feasible for a RepRap-type design team to do this, and release it under the GPL. There is demand.
EDIT: Elaborate here. Short paragraph, and we need media friendly photos of rural dentistry patients.
Sketch
Physically this will Then we can take a defined set of vitamins optical components, a laser-line module, camera module, generic electronics, usb cable, a laptop, etc. And we RepRap the other parts: A large plastic block/handle, or "Housing".
The Housing precisely contains the optical compontens
Medical Applications
Notes
Motivation
Funding Model
Vitamins
Camera Module
Presumably we can use the inexpensive modern cell-phone camera at the end of the optical path.
People
Agitprop
Broadcast the idea in the next Make magazine maybe?
