Posts made by Joseph Chiu

• Focus point, focus distance, depth of focus, and scanning quality

  Is there a rough rule of thumb we should be following in terms of achieving the best positional accuracy?  I'm guessing that you get the best result when the project and camera focus are at th...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  12/10/24, 9:25 PM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  Ok, this is pretty awesome.  I was able to make a magnetic nest for the remote so that I can mount the remote on a pole.   Video in imgur album

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/28/24, 10:06 AM
• Feature request: export to Google Drive/Dropbox

  Yes.  If I am doing a capture session away from my desktop (similar to the early example of scanning the air intake manifold while in the garage) and can successfully create the merged mesh th...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/25/24, 6:01 PM
• Feature request: export to Google Drive/Dropbox

  This is way lower on the priority, but when using a tablet/chromebook to do a capture session, it would be nice to be able to shut down and pack everything away after the capture is done.  But...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/25/24, 6:33 AM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  I had noise reduction set to 20.  The capture settings were always the same as shown here, while brightness and turntable scan/sweep were occasionally adjusted as needed.  

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/23/24, 10:06 PM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  I also posted a video showing off the different merged meshes and textures here (Twitter) 

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/23/24, 8:41 AM
• Bose Mini Remote - Success after firmware update

  I'm still learning how to use the scanner and also tools to work with the resulting data (Meshmixer and TurboCAD), but I just had a really successful result tonight and had to share.  The resu...

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/23/24, 8:40 AM
• Electric screwdriver assembly thread

  @Jordan Cain I have the same challenges when working with largely flat items!

  posted in General 3D Scanning Discussion

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  Joseph Chiu
  11/13/24, 7:43 AM
• Automatic dual-brightness/exposure

  An item I am currently experimenting on has a "two tone" design where the upper half of the device is ivory colored and the bottom half is charcoal colored.  To top it off, the plastic is some...

  posted in Feature Requests

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  Joseph Chiu
  9/26/24, 7:15 AM