The project started in 2010 at Germany’s first FabLab in Aachen. The project is based on a combination of open source software and open hardware. The goal of the project is to make 3D-Scanning as affordable and simple as possible . FabScan is a non-profit community driven project.
Open Source
The FabScan project is 100% open source. All components like electronic schematics, source code of the software and even all plans for the mechanical parts are released under GPLv2.
Platform Independent
One of the main goals of the project is providing the system to all platforms. The server software is browser-enabled which makes the software useable on nearby every modern operating system.
Community Driven
The project lives from the users commitment. Not only code commitments are welcome, there are several other ways on how you can contribute to the project.
FabScan is an open source project. The project consists of multiple components. The source code, plans and files of all those components can be downloaded for free and they are released under the GPLv2 License. Feel free to modify, change or extend those components. And if you think that your changes are helpful for the project, please feel free and share your improvements and designs with the community. Because this project even depends on community work.
The FabScan project is Raspberry Pi based and it comes with a ready to use Raspberry Pi sd-card image. Once installed and booted, the server will be available and assessable via nearby every modern webbrowser.
Moreover is the backends main server application written in Python which makes the whole application highly portable. It is runnable on every platform which supports Python.
The FabScan project is mostly driven by community commitments. This can be in form code contribution, documentation, testing, designing 3d parts, supporting other users with your own experience, doing workshops, donating to the project and even more. You can do whatever helps making the project better and growing.
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