I went full retard...

Up until January this year I had never programmed anything really, in fact all my experience of programming up to that point was very very basic maxscript. I had never worked with motors, or building electrical things with wires nor designing any kind of circuit diagrams. I didn't know the difference between watts, volts and amperes, and to make anything work with a touch screen seemed to be an impossible task. Additionally,  I didn't know shit about CAD or industrial design. 

Yet I decided to go all in and try to build myself an automated photogrammetry scanner after my dad had introduced me to something he was programming. I sat every night until 4am for weeks trying to understand Arduino and programming in general, many many hours of googling, looking at youtube videos and having all night calls with my dad. And I took every chance I could when I was rendering and my computers were off limits for any kind of 3D work. 

This machine is not yet done, there are still some programming to do, some features to add, some problems to solve, and some fine tuning to take care of. But it is operational and it works like a charm. This project is a milestone for me. I've learned so much, not only about programming and electronics, but also about photogrammetry in itself. 

One could argue that I've been wasting my time building a machine that doesn't actually solve any problems, it just saves some time. Well, a lot of time actually. But it's been a great journey and it has opened my eyes to so many new possibilities. I've learned to question everything I think about logics, and I've turned my brain inside and out trying to figure out the math to make everything work flawlessly.

The amount of problems that I've faced, and somehow solved, is crazy and I've given up several times along the way. I'm proud of what I've done. 

Tomorrow I'm recording what will probably be the last video in the BMW in Studio series, and after that I'm psyched to jump right into photogrammetry. I'll be covering it in detail, 3-4 different ways to scan, how to process data and generate models in both Agisoft and Reality Capture so you can choose for yourself what you think works best for you, how to clean, retopo, and extract depth data in Zbrush, how to generate Albedos, and finally how to make your scanned model look absolutely gorgeous. 

I hope you look forward to it as much as I do, and I hope that you enjoyed this video. :-) 

Thank you for being Patrons, thank you for your support! <3 Also I want to thank Martin @texture.supply for cheering, keeping the inspiration up and helping out with the build.