Taken on a small group of Islands in the Oslo fjord, called Hvasser. A 15 meter peice of fabric playing in the wind, scanned right to left in 21 seconds. Got really lucky with the clouds this time, allowing a single beam of sunlight in as a highlight.

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    17 days ago

    Hi!

    I’ve only ever managed to get the lide30 to play nice. I have destroyed one 110 and two 220-scanners in my efforts to build a more versatile rig.

    What happens if you drop the prism back in?

    I’ve also speculated about there being som calibration and automatic gain control going on in these newer models. I believe it could be used to normalize the values coming off of the individual sensor segments.

    On my latest attempt at a 220 scanner, I actually built a small dimmable LED circuit that I attached externally to try and influence the calibration I thought was happening, but there was a disappointing lack of results. Come to think of it, I still have that rig laying around somewhere, and the experiment may have been flawed, I’ll have a look next time I’m at my workshop. I’ll let you know what I find.

    I know that rig is at least functional, as objects placed directly onto the glass renders crude shadows on the scans.

    That’s the long answer, the short answer is no, I don’t have any tips, maybe aside from working on fooling the possible calibration somehow.

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      16 days ago

      I managed to change the image by just shining a torch into it during the calibration and the scan. This is exciting, I might be making progress :-)

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          10 days ago

          So, when I say “change the image”, I mean the torch does affect the calibration, in the sense that I get different patterns of stripes based on the position of the torch, but it’s still just outputting stripes.

          Here are two scans I made by waving the torch around randomly during the calibration, then resting the torch on the glass.

          For some reason each pixel is just outputing the same brightness for the whole duration of the scan, except for that black spot where the torch is, which is weird.