I am not sure how well it is going to work, but did seem like something I needed to do for some reason. I think with the low cost of materials, it will get a lot of people interested in dabbling with it & maybe improving it. I am going to wait & print the plastic parts until I am ready to start working on it. This design may change some before then. I actually only spent about $50 so far, & not the $63. I had included the aluminum extrusion in that cost. I might redesign the parts that use the misumi extrusion 2020 to use openbuilds v-slot instead using openscad. I am not familiar with the 123design that his original files are in. I came across this blog yesterday about the other DIY scanners http://bill-owens.blogspot.com/2015/...ng-piclop.html
I was going to look into making the Ciclop scanner mentioned in this blog, but does not seem like he has released enough info to put it together yet.