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Nickel For Scale: Automatically Customizing 3D Objects to Fit YOU!<br />Marty McGuire, MakerBot Industries<br />Amy Hurst, UMBC<br />

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Extreme Customization!<br />Inexpensive rapid prototyping tools offer a DIY alternative to the one-size-fits-many approach of mass manufacturing.<br />It’s now possible to customize objects just for you!<br />Life-changing for individuals whose abilities or size change over time: <br /><ul><li>Individuals with disabilities

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Children

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Older adults</li></li></ul><li>But there are hard questions.<br />What measurement tools are needed for customization?<br /><ul><li>What tools are available?

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Can’t expect everyone to have calipers or a precision 3D scanner!

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What tools are easy to operate? </li></ul>How do you customize 3D models from measurements?<br /><ul><li>How do you know what to measure for your model?

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What if you have to retake measurements?</li></li></ul><li>Nickel For Scale<br />Take measurements from images of an object, using a nickel for reference!<br />Parameterized 3D models<br /><ul><li>OpenSCAD enables us to scale models based on these measurements</li></li></ul><li>Project Details<br />Built in 48 hours at the Baltimore Hackathon<br /><ul><li>Voted audience favorite</li></ul>Software used:<br /><ul><li>Processing: OpenCV, unlekkerLib, controlP5, …

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OpenSCAD</li></ul>Nickel for Scale is Open Source!<br />nickelforscale.com<br />github.com/martymcguire/NickelForScale<br />