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Robot - we are going to setup a robot to make sculpture and rapid prototypes and to make large complex molds for composite tooling, etc. Excited to travel to Italy soon to learn how to run the robot.

Race car - http://g-roadster.tumblr.com/. We are going to make a race car that is amazing! I need to start the 3D Solidworks model of it from Steve's drawings.

Audio - http://www.tektondesign.com/. We are making and will make a huge impact on the audio scene.

Just putting this down on the blog. I plan to expand on these as I go along. And add to them, many more cool things.

I was so bored with my job working for the man. I really hope I can make a life and a lifestyle that I like. Here goes!




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Kinect - 3D Scan

okay. working with Taylor Miller we got the Kinect up and running on his MAC and now I need to get it to work on my PC.
1-haven't found software that is plug-and-play like what we used on the MAC - following this tutorial.. it was super easy.
A)this one is super amazing - http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8262
B)this we did first - http://makeprojects.com/Project/From-Kinect-to-MakerBot/1220/1

not sure how to embed video

Google+ allows you to edit. Problem

#Googleplus allows you to post something and then edit it later. So this is what I did.




















and then I did this:

Kinect - 3D Scan - for robot cutting later

Okay.. So, we are going to take sculpture and cut it out of massive stone and wood using an ABB robot arm. I need to learn how to scan in 3D via Kinect. I'm going to track some of my progress here.

KINECT-
?1)does Kinect need to be a certain model? is there a nec difference?
?2)what software for scanning?
A-OpenKinect? or "I used pixelnerve's CLNUI for Java under processing. It gave me an error when trying to run but it compiles fine. It should also be working fine under Eclipse."
?3)how do i merge the multiple scans? are scanned surfaces enough to get data for 3D cutting with a robot arm?
A-"Meshlab Plugin for Kinect. Just a straigforward incorporation of OpenKinect" - what is that.. how do i install it..

I haven't ever "compiled" a program.. I'm guessing it's not super hard.. I just don't know how to do it; making it impossible.. for now. :)