Public Domain Images of the Portable Book Scanner

Several people have contacted me looking for some images of my new scanner — here are a few. I relinquish any copy rights to these images; they are in the public domain now. If you feel like being really nice, credit me when you use them.







High res, print-ready copies here:

5 Comments so far

  1. judith feist October 20th, 2009 22:17

    i showed my mom the video you made and she damn near had a heart attack she was so excited. then i gave her my laptop and she spent an hour looking through your page and when she finished she said,”judith, this young man is VERY bright. i hope he goes far in life.”
    to say the least she loves your site. as do i (:

    i hope you’re well, dan.

  2. Женя October 23rd, 2009 12:46

    The mini scanner looks neat! Still has some of the spooky character of its predecessors, but is definitely cuter. Any problems getting it on the plane? Did you have to assemble it for the security people?:) Are the black lines along the perimeter from the laser cutter, or did you trace those?
    Как всегда – молоток!

  3. Wetdryvac November 2nd, 2009 14:55

    This seriously kicks the crap out of my white-box system. I see you’ve made the images public domain – do you have any objection to my building a derivative work (scanner similar to this) from your design?

  4. danreetz November 3rd, 2009 16:47

    hey wetdryvac, the idea is that everyone makes their own, so go ahead. i suggest you join the 150 or so people trying to do the same thing over at diybookscanner.org. ;)

    j, }|{, your confidence means so much to me. thanks.

  5. simon November 7th, 2009 07:32

    This is just FANTASTIC – I love it. Now if the kids would stop bothering me I can build one of these!!!

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