RAE-1 Automatic Book Scanner

[myintertube]

It's pretty noisy. I think a bit of a thoughtful box with sound absorbant

[Willyireland1]

I fucking laughed when it started :)

[fares57]

Epic fail!

[999manxman]

I think it scans and cleans - thus it sucks...

[sweetcheeba1]

Rofl the sound this thing makes is hilarious. Sounds like a router bit is about to come down and rip its way through the book.

[OghamTheBold]

Until it cycled - I thought the first part was promising

Once the pages were separated - I thought something would be walloping them to the right machine gun fashion - at 14,000 pages per hour

[pkrind]

just a use of nothing and futile machine

[sirjcob]

I doubt a library would want something so loud in their building. I'd say it was a start, but begin again from scratch.

[33Chimel33]

What an horrible, slow and noisy contraption, the pages are not even scanned lying flat. Don't they teach design, efficiency and passion for technology at Georgia Tech?

[henrikhjort]

but thats just stupid....

[okio03]

too much energy used for this scanning

[JohnM3D]

@okio03 Exactly! And parts will wear fast!

And in addition, it can probably wrinkle pages in some situations.

[sgtpepper1138]

@okio03 Is that seriously a concern when you're archiving?

[sgtpepper1138]

it's cool, but in the time it takes to do 2 pages, you could probably do 8 or so

[eclectro]

And what exactly is the buzz saw for then??

[paulgmb]

it's way to slow , other book scanners on the market are better .

[gomoaus]

LOUD!

[styx85]

Hahah, that's crude.

[Yazemu]

looks great, how much is it?

[JustMakingComments]

I want to call this a RARE-1.