Wow! Watch this video I found from Boing Boing!
Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.
Step aside Nancy Pearl! I want my own action figure!
“Barcelona’s Blablablab set up a “Be Your Own Souvenir installation that used a Kinect and a 3D printer to allow passersby to pose for on-demand action-figures of themselves and their night out on the town: “The project uses custom software developed using openKinect and openFrameworks. To create an army figurine style souvenir, visitors use 3 kinect sensors to create a 360-degree scan which creates input pointclouds. Meshlab then uses these combined pointclouds to create a Poisson reconstruction, which is cleaned up via Blender and Skeinforge before being fed into a cnc machine (Rapman 3.1), which prints out the souvenir. Voila! Now, seriously, check out the pics and video of it in action on the next page!””
Now here’s my idea. I’d love to see a library card campaign that gave end-users or teens their own figure. Now that could get folks into the library and see how things have changed for the better!
See the whole process in pictures here. This might be the perfect job for Andy Woodworth travelling from library to library!
Stephen
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