It’s at all times lofty to catch sight of hardware hacks. This single, called 3Dioo, in a minute demoed on stage at this point by the side of the TechCrunch Disrupt spanking York 2014 hackathon turns a standard Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone into a 3D capture device — and a viewer, whilst used indoors conjunction with a combine of hardware add-ons.
The array pro capturing the 3D is made from cardboard, held in sync with a the minority well-placed TechCrunch stickers, with a seat to slot indoors the phone and four mirrors arranged so with the aim of they split the photo or else capture on tape footage into two — enabling it to generate a necessary stereoscopic output, devoid of the need to take part in two lenses on your smartphone.
The captured 3D photos or else videos can in that case take place viewed using a out-and-out hardware viewer, which the two-person pungent hack duo besides leave in sync overnight.
The viewer (pictured by the side of the top of this stake being checked banned by single of the hackathon judges) is made from a lens indoors a $10 consider Master 3D toy, with a seat to slot the smartphone by the side of the rectify distance from the lens to take place able to consider the 3D.
The viewer looks much like a DIY Oculus separation. Albeit, the output of 3Dioo is clearly a allocation a smaller amount immersive — additional pixellated than $2 billion of polished rate. But hey, it was leave in sync indoors 24 hours.
The two person team behind 3Dioo is Oscar Torres (pictured lower than viewing the mirror array), and Candida Hayes. Torres was part of the 2012 Disrupt NY winning hack team, with Thingscription.
“3Dioo is a 3D approach pro your phone. It’s a kit,” thought Torres, viewing inedible the rig in the wings. “It’s up for grabs to take part in to take place various pro each single phone — so we’re up for grabs to take part in a kit pro an iPhone, a kit pro an machine of various types, for the reason that of the various sizes and various cameras.”
“I wanted to accomplish something additional material [than the Thingscription software hack],” he added, whilst asked how the team came up with the hack. “I’m really interested indoors 3D machinery so whilst I axiom this petty consider Master I was instantly thinking ‘maybe I can accomplish something with this’.”
The hack team has leave in sync a website with tutorials viewing inedible how to concoct the device, and is eager to take advantage of these ‘open source’ commands to build a convergence of DIY 3D enthusiasts.
“There’s the specs there… I grant a link to someplace you can good buy a consider Master. And I grant a sample capture on tape you can try involuntarily,” thought Torres.
“I hunger to catch sight of I beg your pardon? Populate accomplish with it. If I catch sight of a allocation of draw your attention with this — I even integrated the measurements pro the mirrors — if anybody wants to accomplish it, I hunger to catch sight of I beg your pardon? Happens. More or less making it release source, and catch sight of I beg your pardon? Sort of attribution happens.”
Sample videos can take place posted on YouTube, which is someplace the team is eager a convergence — built inedible the back of 3Dioo — might start to build around sharing and viewing DIY 3D.
Torres added with the aim of he wanted to concoct something regular, known the constraints of 24 hours hacking — but which still had the budding to build something better than the sum of its cardboard parts.
“I know from prior hackathons with the aim of selected ideas with the aim of a allocation additional to concoct than others so something like this is so regular — it’s additional more or less the convergence, and a smaller amount more or less the artifact,” he thought.
“If a convergence builds around this we can accomplish something with it — in a minute the brand. Kind of like the MakerBot was release source but the brand maintained and there’s rate indoors with the aim of. In a minute for the reason that it’s release source doesn’t mean you can’t capitalise on that… And the market’s pretty gigantic pro 3D.”
To the same degree well to the same degree being a hackathon veteran (and winner of “a bunch”), Torres besides has a location retail startup, called Minerapp. “We’re wearisome to build the Amazon pro locations,” he thought of with the aim of app.
“If you look pro a charge indoors Amazon you catch sight of the vendors with the aim of advertise it indoors our app. Just the once we perceive additional range you’ll take place able to search pro the charge and catch sight of someplace around you it is — which food are promotion it.”
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