Notes

There is lot’s of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few:

• SCAN Z do-it-yourself 3D scanner
• Building a Homemade Laser Line Scanner (CS6998, Spring ’01)
• Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners
• Scanalicious: A 3D Scanner GUI Client and Micro-controller Software
• 3-D Laser Scanner
• Scanalicious: A 3D Scanner for You and Me
• 3D Scannerless Scanning for Fabbers
• Splinescan: Open Source 3D Scanning
• NXT™ 3D scanner
• DAVID-laserscanner: Low-Cost 3D Scanner for Everyone!
• stripo-3DSCAN Light
• Structured Light 3D Scanning
• Milkscanner: Displacement Mapping
• Using Meshlab to Clean and Assemble 3D Scan Data
• Build your own 3D scanner
• 3D Photography on your desk/li>
• Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners/li>
• Project DASER: Introduction/li>

Here is a nice hardware chart:

Here is a larger version. If this link is down, try http://www.google.com/search?q=Computer_hardware_poster_1_7_by_Sonic840

I’m not an apple fan, but this look like a good form factor. I like the tall screen idea versus wide screen.

Mac Netbook.

GLOBALSAT BU353 Waterproof USB GPS Receiver

GARMIN 010-00321-00 GPS 18 Deluxe USB Sensor

The Globalsat BU-353 would be my first choice, it has very good reviews and it is waterproof.