How to make a homeade scanner from cardboard and a coathanger

Photo by Vineet Chauhan

In the modern world, purchasing a scanner-copier-fax for personal scanning intentions is actually rake. A inexpensive solution is getting your digital / mobile camera to function as an image scanner, but that can require a lot of expertise on your part to hold the camera motionless and acquire non-blurry picture. Here is a Do-it-ypurself project that will save you both time and money, and wven without requiring any complex circuitry or over-the-top electronic hugger-mugger, will eradicate the need for an image scanner. Conceptualized by Matt Embrey, the sole requirements for this project are a camera, tough cardboard or 2 coat-hangers and an elastic rubber band. For the cardboard base, survey the plan and trim the cardboard to construct the unit. The coat-hanger base is even easier to construct, barely some muscle-power and a bit of bending. But remember one thing: adapt the height of the bases such that your photographic camera can fit the entire image to be scanned. Pictures speak 1000 words, so go run down the entire procedure in images after the break.

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