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    Be Your Own Souvenir Lets You 3D Scan Yourself And Take Home A Figurine

    John Biggs

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    Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
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    Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.

    This odd system uses a Kinect head and some homebrew software to 3D scan you in real time and then print out a micro-figurine. It seems to take a little bit of time – that’s not clear from the video – and the whole system isn’t quite ready for prime-time yet.

    It’s made by BlablaLab in Barcelona. It uses 3 Kinect sensors and openKinect to create a mesh of your body that it converts into a Rapman 3.1 rapid manufacturer. Then it spits you out as a a little green army man-sized figurine. Pretty fun and ingenious.

    via Notcot

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