There is lot’s of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few:
- SCAN Z
- 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
- Build Your Own 3D Scanner: Optical Triangulation for Beginners
- Project DASER: Introduction
- Kinect-fusion Open-source Point-cloud