I ran a 3D Photo Booth at the 2012 Pittsburgh Mini Maker Faire back in September. While not nearly as cool as the one in the article, we did scan over 90 people over the course of the day and print out over 40 at the fair with two makerbots.<p><a href="http://jherrman.com/2012/10/introducing-scanbooth/" rel="nofollow">http://jherrman.com/2012/10/introducing-scanbooth/</a><p>We couldn't have scanned so many people without some automation for streamlining the scan process and cleaning up the scans for printing. I posted the rails app we used and automation scripts on github:<p><a href="https://github.com/jherrm/scanbooth" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jherrm/scanbooth</a>
For those unfamiliar with Japanese currency, the Yen isn't subdivided into cents or pence like many Western currencies, so shift the decimal point two places to the left (i.e., think of 100 JPY as $1.00)
Pretty cool for weddings: have customized figures of the spouses on the big cake. Since in Japan weddings are extremely expensive (up to several years of savings go into it!) I would not be surprised they start to include this kind of service in the near future.
Wondering how they are printing these. Not aware of a plastic printer that can do that kind of color - are these hand painted afterwards, or come off the machine looking like that?
I'm not sure this concept is very new, last year, Danny Choo made a relatively detailed article[1] about Clone Factory, offering a similar service for about three times the price of the large version.<p>[1]:<a href="http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26119/Human+Cloning+in+Japan.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/26119/Human+Cloning+in+Japa...</a>