DIY Book Scanner

Hey pals, there is still work going on! Here is an Update: We completely rebuild the vertical axis, because it was moving back-and-forth and wasn't stiff enough to work nice and smooth with our Stepper Motors. A nice side-effect is the much cleaner surface of the vertical axis. I think it looks more...

Some Pictures of my Bookscann0r

The whole Bookscanner
The Mechanics for the Counterweight
The Mounting of the Cameras

Hey, I postet months ago a Video of my planned design in this threat: http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=187 Now I have built it and it works! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khugFvlf8Wg I built it with an incredible amount of Help from others. I am building this Device in the Ha...

Hello, On the 9th of October will be the 2nd Meeting of the Berlin Bookscanner Group. We plan to do these Meetings on a regular basis, every 14 days. Right now, we are 4 people, but we hope that more people will join. We meet in the Hackerspace c-base (http://c-base.org/) which is perfect for our Ne...

Hey, now, finally, I have the financials clear and nice. So I am able to afford a Bookscanner. YEAH! I am still thinking about Cameras. I live in Germany, and I have 400€ in total. 50€ for Material and Lights, so I can spend 350€ on my two Cameras. What I dont understand: There is this new sof...

Hey, I would like to discuss this Idea, I have posted in this Threat earlier: Automatic Page-Turning I thought a long time over this problem, but I think, I found a solution (not build, only an idea) I think everybody saw this Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb6E4Hrgi9Y The Pages are sucked vi...

I used Cinema4D R11.0 for the Animation and Rendering and Adobe Premiere CS4 for Editing the first and last 5 seconds, the Title and the Music. This is a good point. I saw a nice solution in the Video of Daniel_reetz laser-cut portable scanner. With two seperated plates, that can be plugged into a s...

The one problem I see right away is your cradle doesn't support the spine of the book. Does this mean the left-right movement of the whole book to compensate the moving folding (at the beginning, only a few pages are on the left side, and many pages are on the right side, so the cradle has to move ...

Hey you! I just made a 3D-Animation of my idea to build a bookscanner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GrI9UFD4uo I would love to read some comments about my idea and tipps at which point my construcion may fail or has a weak point. Waiting for your answers. PS: The Camera and the Lights is just som...

Hello, I am thinking of building my own Bookscanner and registered here to discuss my ideas. I did a 3D-Animation of my Idea, but I think I need some improvements in some of the Parts. I have to spend about 100-150€ every month on Books, and this is money I want to save in the future. Thats why I ...