New to the forum as I only found the site today . Just finished making myself a plattern style book scanner . I started building it last year and pretty much made it out of scrap from work, . Pretty much its a copy of a commerical machine and definatly other designs here are much more advanced of what I have done.
In hindsight I would never have built it this way if I had never seen a commerical machine. Away I just did it all visually without plans or mock ups . Overall it will do the job. Now I just need to buy cameras and sort out which software to use.
Looks like a great forum and will be lurking around
I plan to make the plattern a little bigger to make whole background bigger
Surround is channel and fastened together with 0.32" flat strips and aircraft solid rivets
The vertical rails , upper is camera mounts
View looking thru the camera mount
the main base
Its matt picture framing glass , which gives a great finish with almost no glare. I am paranoid about cracking it :-/ i cracked the first two plates as i assembled them under tension
Taken with a 7mp 3x optical zoom sony camera
Rails installed on upright . just furniture draw rails
Starting to assemble
handle is flatterned Alum tubing bend roughly at ends. angle at vee is 2 shelf brackets
the two steel rails are for magnets to keep book in place
Base rails
Overall the whole rig cost me about $120 to produce . Hope you find it interesting
...... No really its the back of the hangar where I work . My day job is a Aircraft Maint Engineer and I am lucky to have the use of the hangar for personal projects . Most of my scanner is made of aircraft scrap, aircraft rivets and aircraft sheet metal
