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Can anyone recommend a good place to get parts for a homebrew system (available to Canada, at a reasonable price).

Full disclosure, I'm actually looking to build a large 3D scanning system but in terms of movement of the camera heads, I've been looking at my printer and thinking that it could use a similar configuration though on a slightly larger scale (rails, with a wheeled+track system for horizontal and large spiraled cylinder for vertical) , but I have no idea where to source these sort of parts.

Any ideas?

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[–] snota@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Voron allow you to configure a printer and the provide a spreadsheet suggesting the sources for buying the parts. They aren't region specific but most of the vendors are multinational.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you ever seen anything like this? There's no need for a massive beefy frame, all you need is a jig to rotate your subject relative to the camera. You can do this with a fixed camera while rotating the subject around two axis or you can rotate the subject around one axis and the camera around another.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I was looking at that, but I'm looking for something that scales fairly large (human bodies +) and kinda feel that a vertical track with maybe a rotating pedestal would work best

[–] teruma@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

OpenScan scales. Their electronics and software are great, and you can set up your own mechanics pretty easily. I scaled mine up to can things approximately the size of a basketball, but going to human size should be easily doable.

[–] Alfiegerner@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I stumbled upon local (in NZ) maker sites by searching for the relevant components, e.g. stepper motors 20x20 extrusion etc.

Using site:NZ in google for local searches for me, maybe site:ca for you?

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spool3D has a fair assortment of printer parts, although I don't know if they have exactly what you need. They're in Calgary. I've ordered from them once, although it was just filament samples, and got everything in a reasonable amount of time.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

This is pretty much exactly what I read looking for. Thanks!

[–] shitescalates@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm wondering the same, but for the US. I ordered from banggood in years back, but it was hit or miss.