Various stuff, possibly for our Makerfaire 2011.
This is highly unorganized right now, and started out as a collection of stuff that Cliff and Andreas are working on.
Imagine you're attending Maker Faire 2011. Attracted by the magnetism of pure awesomeness, you make a beeline to the Ace Monster Toys booth.
There you discover a large box, claiming to be a Photo Booth...but the screen out front shows what looks like a rotating model of a head. How odd!
You step inside the booth and press a button. A screen lights up, showing a 3D model of your head in profile. It tells you to center your profile within a circular outline, superimposed on your head. A few seconds later, something goes "bong!" and you step out.
A few feet to your left, a 3D printer hums to life. The friendly operator suggests that you check out the rest of the booth while your souvenir comes to life, but you hang out and watch.
Over the next few minutes, the friendly robots create a customized coin. On the back is the AMT logo and some (hard to read) commemorative text. But on the face...is, well, your face, in profile, doing your best George Washington.
You leave holding a little piece of the future, and a promise that if you stop by the space and show your coin, we will...something. At least say hello! So of course you head to Oakland and become a member.
MakerBots are slow, and people have short attention spans. The coins must be fast to print --- say, no more than 10 minutes. This means they'll have to be quite thin, with only a couple layers for face detail. (This is why it's a profile shot: they're easier to recognize by outline alone.)
Pieces we can pull together:
- Cliff has an open-source library for capturing, processing, displaying, and manipulating data from the Kinect. He also has a Kinect.
- There are some MakerBots around that we might be able to rope in. More MakerBots means more throughput. (Thought: reach out to MakerBot Industries. This would be great advertising for them....)
- We'll need a few trained operators.