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Last 11 scanners are expected to be shipped today. We will have the tracking numbers close to the end of the week, because when shipping in batches, the numbers are... Read more

Looks like October is about to end, but we have another 30 or so left to ship. We hope to finish that in the first week of November.

right now we have about 80 scanners left to be shipped and we are certain they will be shipped in 3-4 weeks.

so if you have payed for the update,... Read more

New software released, please find it here:
http://rubitech.org/tutorials.html

we have another 50 assembled and pocked scanners that we will ship this week and it will make more then half of the scanners shipped :) the assembly team will... Read more

Hi guys,

Wanted to say that our assembly team had shipped out about 60 scanners last week, another 30 were assembled over the weekend and are ready to be shipped... Read more

Jacob K. Frank J. F. Kipp Y. S. Technologies Corporation . Santoni C. Ken R. M.'s A. Ltd . A. S. LLC. B.3d. Russ N. G. IDS GmbH. Kris Y.... Read more

20 scanners shipped out today to

Marko Ocko, Zak Kus, Eric Lakey, Simon Gornall, Chris Karanievski, Dennis Vondendriesch, Ulrich Peter Geis, Ashley Mckay, Masahiro OISHI, Gage Anderson, Sean Scully, Victor... Read more

Hi guys,

I just returned from my bussinesstrip to find that about 100 scanners are assembled ( out of 200 pcbs received ). the assembly will continue thruought the week,... Read more

PCBs were programmed and tested. 90% work and would be shipped out to me tomorrow. Remaining 10% would be fixed and shipped a bit later.

So far we are slightly... Read more

Hi guys, A brief update. I will be leaving on a vacation for about 10 days, but I will do my best to answer all emails during the trip.

1.... Read more

1. after assembly those 100 scanners my assembly team took a timeout without giving me the tracking numbers. but since people are already receiving their scanner, I guess that the... Read more

hi guys, about who were in the last batch shipped and who weren't - i will get the tracking number from our assembly team in the following days and would... Read more

Dear backers,

We expect to ship out a batch of 100 scanners this week.

If you have already got the upgrade, please go here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PGGP3GP to confirm your shipping address.... Read more

Software for new scanners finished https://www.dropbox.com/s/tm3wku61ctih9o9/rubicon_new_08.05.2015.rar?dl=0

during the weekend I will personally test the assembled scanners to be sure everything's ok.

In total, I believe we already have about 50 of them ready. I understand that everybody wants an exact shipping date... we are negotiating with EMS right now to understand... Read more

Tomorrow will assemble a few base boards and make sure that they work fine together.

everything is going according to plan, expecting to start assembling this week.

blank PCBs ready in China and will be shipped out today. expecting to start assembling them by the end of the week.

blank PCBs are almost finished and would be shipped to us any other day.

we also were able to reanimate 6 old usb2 PCBs and would assemble them into scanners... Read more

a short update - right now we are in the process of mass ordering the PCBs. Currently we are negotiating parts and prices and would order them this week. The... Read more

... uploading firmware and testing now.

New board prototypes just arrived at the assembling factory in Hungary. This week they will be poppulated and, hopefully, everything would work.

As you can see, now the top board... Read more

Both 64 and 32 bit version can he found here http://rubitech.org/tutorials.html

Average scan time about 25 min.

I planed to release the updated fast-working software version on Monday, but since some people already received their scanners, here it goes.

This ships today to Indiegogo and Kickstarter backers. And a similar amount planed for tomorrow. That would be the first batch.

will pass them to our assembly team tomorrow. expecting to ship those scanners on Tuesday.

Today I especially picked an object with poor surface properties for scanning and it turned out pretty good.

First small test-batch of boards with the components from Fernell and TME.eu are working with flashing colors!

They will be shipped to me on Monday, therefor I would be able... Read more

New "pancakes" fit great. Also ordered a bag of stiffer springs for the lasers ( that push the collimation lens forward, to keep it steady ), as the standard springs... Read more

Please download it from

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ib0aas1pd9a5rxe/Rubitech64_22.10.2014.rar?dl=0

Wanted to share some information about tweaking image sensor registers.

If the picture you are getting is too dark, you can set the exposure register ( number 9 ) higher. ... Read more

The texture is still low-res and can't be saved yet, so it more like a beta.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/x3qsvucl53v6sec/Rubitech_16.10.2014.rar?dl=0

Photo:

Scan:

Rendering:

OBJ file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6adkq8kv9agc6b8/mordaP.rar?dl=0

Dear pledges, 

Robert has just informed me that he has put in a large order for PCBs to be made in Hungary. 50 will be assembled solely for Kick-starter backers.... Read more

Dear kick-starter backers,

I am deeply sorry for the delays and teething problems that have been experienced during this campaign. I have seen some of the comments that have been... Read more

35 PCBs from Hungary arrived! So first scanners would be shipping to backers this week.

Our first attempt of merging 3 scans ( general, handle and top part ) into a simple mesh and running the poisson algorithm to fuse it. I think the result... Read more

Great news, first 25 PCBs assembled in Hungary, programmed, tested and packed would be shipped to me tomorrow. Another 25 would be assembled and shipped to me by Monday... then... Read more

Considering the PCBs, we have found a reputable factory in Hungary that will help us with the PCB. Chinese will ship them everything they have tomorrow, so hopefully by the... Read more

Hi guys,
Just got 10 pcbs made from the old components, 5 of them work perfectly, so on Monday I will ship our 5 scanners, while the other 5 don't... Read more

Wanted to let you know that the factory is working on the PCBs, as it appeared there were more issues then we thought at first. Anyway, finally they got the... Read more

Hi guys,
You can find the current release of the software and a brief tutorial here.

http://rubitech.org/tutorials.html

Wanted to pose another great sample scan of a clay jar.

We obtained a point cloud with 490.000 points, optimized them to 0.15mm, which got us 326.000 points.

Reconstructed mesh.... Read more

Here you can see a rendering of a scan next to the photo of the vase.
As you can notice, we were able to capture very fine details, up to... Read more

First 20 scanner assembled, would be packed and shipped tomorrow.

Hi guys, here goes the comparison.

With the webcam we were able to get the resolution of about 1mm, which translated into about 15.000 points for the vase scan.

 With... Read more

Wanted to show you our first cylindrical scan. We are working on the software and hopefully tomorrow would be able to scan the vase.

As for the PCBs, the factory... Read more

First thing about the PCBs, the factory received them back yesterday and hopefully by the mid next week we would have the diagnosis and would know how long would it... Read more

It appears that the manufacturers used the wrong kink of EPROM chip, that won't connect to the computer. We had send the PCBs back to them, to replace this chip.... Read more

Hi guys and girls, Wanted to give you a timeline of how everything is going.

While to top ( camera ) boards are finished, we are having a slight delay... Read more

While we are waiting for the PCBs to make our first real scan, we had one "slice" saved, from which we made a "scan" by rotated 800 times.

Edge detection:... Read more

over the past few days we had fully tested the firmware and fixed all issues that we initially had. such as at first it did not want to take multiple... Read more

Ladies and Gentlemen,
Blank PCBs are ready, all 600 of them, and today would be shipped to Netherlands for soldering the components.

Ladies and Gentlemen,
PCBs go into mass production and will be ready in about 10 days.
As you might notice, we had split the power supply into two - one... Read more

Having full low-level control over the camera pays off, here is the image we just got. As you can see, the quality is pretty good. Hope we would be able... Read more

Scanner bodies go into mass production. Should be ready in 10-14 days.

Firmware for the FPGA is also almost ready, PCBs expected to go into production early next week.

Gentleman, you can download the beta version of our software here ( Win only this time )

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ub6jh3xz84de2dp/RubiconWin.rar

there also in a .rub file that you can open and play... Read more

Hurray! First body samples arrived and their quality is outstanding! Truly fascinating to see an object in real life that you've been seeing on your monitor for month.

Slight sandblasting... Read more

PCB prototype of the bottom board is finished and the top board ( the one with the FPGA and the camera ) would be populated today.

The first samples of... Read more

The molds are finished and the manufacturers are now making first sample parts from them.

Photos of the body and other parts should be expected tomorrow and the samples should... Read more

While the mold making for the housing is going fine, we seem to have a slight delay on the FPGA prototype. Chinese manufacturers had to finish it on Friday, as... Read more

I wasn't fully happy with the sticky PU disks, as they are very soft, almost jelly-like, can't keep their shape well and have two states - either extra-sticky or extra-dirty.... Read more

This was a tough one! At first we wanted to implement an already existing library that would do surface reconstruction, but finished writing the algorithm from scratch ourselves. The result... Read more

our programmer finished coding & tweaking normal-detection and surface-reconstruction algorithms. In the first part of next week he will implement them into our GUI application and I would be able... Read more

goes into prototyping today.

Just got the prototype from China. Seems great in general, yet has a few minor issues to be fixes, such as adding ribs to the turning disk, as it seems... Read more

600 motors just arrived ))

Also slightly bad news, fixed camera module samples would be ready only after the Chinese holidays, on Feb. 15.

An early draft of the box design... if you have better suggestions, speak up. :)

Stepper motors have just left HongKong and would reach me in a couple of days.... Read more

All 600 stepper motors are ready, will be shipped to me shortly.

Got two more laser samples, selected the best and will order 1200 units tomorrow.

Just received all 1200 glass square line generating lenses, seem to work great, the line is as thin and sharp as it can be.

camera takes decent quality images, the lens is great, just what we need. It has good focus depth and the user can always give it a turn, to get the... Read more

A simulated scan of a vase at full resolution of a 5mp camera.
Notice it had 936,000 points, while makerbot's digitizer has just 200k :)

 600 cables just arrived.

Improved the line detection algorithm, now it not only works much faster ( about 0.1 seconds per image ), but also is visual - red line is from an image,... Read more

We have completed the most complicated part of the software development - converting laser line images into a 3d point cloud.

In this screenshots you see a point cloud reconstructed... Read more

While the PCB works great controlling the motor and lasers, appears there are problems with the HUB. When designing the PCB our engineer had a 2mp camera in mind and... Read more

will program and test them today.

Received sample lasers from one of the manufacturers. Quality seems pretty good, the line they produce is <0.5 mm. Expecting samples from two more manufacturers later this week.

First PCB photos from China, it will be shipped to me on Monday.

Who'll be the first to notice something missing on the pcb? )))

Design of the camera board, according to which manufacturers will redraw their existing camera module pcb.

Just received a sample stepper motor from the second manufacturer.
While it costs 2.5$ more then the first one, it's performs much better. Very smooth, without any vibrations. Will order... Read more

received custom stepper motor samples from one of the suppliers. will receive samples from two more supplies next week and then choose from whom to order 600 units.

We redesigned the PCB, now it accommodates for the camera and LED illumination. We will build our own prototype tomorrow and, if it works fine, we would order prototypes from... Read more

When we just stared this project, I considered many ways of manufacturing the scanner body and stopped on laser-cut acrylic, because it was the only method that did not involve... Read more

We got a good deal on PCB production from a company in china, but before we want to build and test another in-house prototype.