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Introduction

The Openscan project https://openscan.eu is a really cool 3D printing and scanning project. It systematically takes a series of photos that can be stitched together into a 3D model using photogrammetry. Thomas Megel the creator of OpenScan has a really cool cloud-based service that can take the raw photos and turn them an STL model for you. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/OpenScanEu/OpenScan/blob/master/temp/README.md

Another way to take advantage of photogrammetry is using AliceVision's Meshroom. Prusa Research did a nice explainer/tutorial in this blog post: https://blog.prusaprinters.org/photogrammetry-2-3d-scanning-simpler-better-than-ever_29393/

The main "catch" with Meshroom is that it requires CUDA and hence an NVIDIA graphics card. It didn't have an NVIDIA card (and didn't want to figure out how to run in the cloud) but I did have a Jetson Nano 2GB https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/autonomous-machines/embedded-systems/jetson-nano/education-projects/

The documentati

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