Preserving my Grandpa with 3D Photogrammetry

[@susangeerling212]

Jeff, as your mother, this is the Piece De Resistance of all your videos! I laughed, cried, and loved all of it! I love our wacky, wonderful family. You did grandpa proud!

[@careytschritter1108]

I am really proud of your son. He is makes my day and weeks sometimes. You did a good job - as my Dad would have said.

[@sridharkrishna6969]

Greetings from India.

[@DigitalArchmage]

You probably didn't intend for crying, but something about the whole thing got me. Came for 3D printing, stayed for cool story about your grandpa.

[@andre7417]

I think all of us did...

[@alanbrunettin5584]

I was present for the Italian incident. This just made me smile.

[@johanna2148]

You know first I thought the ketchup bottle cap would be a tad inappropriate towards him, but after hearing his story this is totally wholesome!

[@jmr]

I thought it was a dumb idea until I heard the story. Now I have been enlightened.

[@iam.jasonhoward]

Man, I love this video. It’s sentimental, educational, and funny. What an awesome way to remember your grandad. 💯

[@InMyElement]

Dont care what anyone says, RSJ is an absolute legend. And your Grandpa sounds Awesome too!

[@mmnewman]

Thank you for honoring grandpa / dad so beautifully. Next time, I'll bring some of those packets!

[@JeffGeerling]

Ketchup! Ketchup! Ketchup! My kids were cracking up watching that part!

[@p-thor]

Goes into a loving rant about his grandfather. But I digress. Lol Thanks for sharing Jeff

[@detaer]

This is the sweetest thing I have seen on the internet in a while. Thanks for sharing your family with all of us.

[@peterkambasis]

That was a little different, but enjoyable! Your grandpa had great taste. Ketchup on veal is amazing. I sometimes make it into a sandwich with buttered wonder bread too. chef's kiss.

[@codemonkeyhacks3973]

The story of your grandfather was very touching and funny. Also, waited the entire video to see your reaction to the 'coffee enhanced' donut, priceless!

[@JeffGeerling]

Once you dip it into coffee, the donut tastes like coffee. It's like the very substance of donut has been transformed, and I did not like it!

[@CHTO82]

This is such a beautiful hommage to your grandfather. If more people had caring and loving relatives I think the world would be a happier place.

[@ur1friend437]

Thanks for sharing this beautiful story about your family because really enjoy it and found it hilarious. Again thank you very much.

[@frankbohnen2347]

What better way to honor a loved family member, very well done Jeff and your family.

[@googleplay9522]

Thanks for sharing your story about your grandpa. Very touching!

[@smartassist9700]

Things like this make you a very unique person who’s personality brings everyone a smile.

[@dadrad]

Jeff, this was a heartwarming video. Thanks for sharing the stories, I really enjoyed how you connected everything together.

[@therealjamescobb]

Great video Jeff!! It really was heartwarming hearing about your grandpa and how your family adores him even now!

[@charliehuang1252]

Really love this one. It combines technology and human together perfectly. Your grandpa did a great job and you do a great job too. 👍👍👏

[@ehh54]

always good with great grandparents. Thanks for all the good ansible playbooks

[@johnsonlam]

Romantic and touching story, your grandpa did a good example for others.

[@otter-pro]

A great video, not just tech or raspberry pi, but emotional heart-warming story intertwined with technology.

[@jeremytrees7266]

The outtakes, never change jeff!

[@cormackeenan8175]

In my case, my mother obsessed about a chocolate shoe she saw as a child in a confectionery shop that her parents could not afford to buy her, so on her 80th birthday my sister had one hand made which required considerable skill on behalf of the confectioner. Its funny the things that form our memories.

[@jyvben1520]

our memories

[@Dheeidjdndbd]

There’s a 3D printable scanning rotation stand that makes this process easier as I understand it. Great job none the less!

[@JeffGeerling]

But then I couldn't have Red Shirt Jeff inspect my hacked-together lazy susan!

[@Dheeidjdndbd]

@@JeffGeerling True, I retract my statement XD

[@ed.puckett]

Thank you, Jeff, very heart-warming!

[@theDevPanda]

Ketchup grandpa is amazing. I wish I'd known either of my grandfathers, but this made me smile. Thank you.

[@BJAguiar]

This is your best video up till now, buddy. The one with less spoken technical details (with links to cope with it), but it has tech as it should be at least most of the time: a great tool for making life better. Great job!

[@jasoncherry2508]

I love that we live in an age where this sort of thing is even possible! I love my 3D printer (Snapmaker 2.0 A350 with matching enclosure and OctoPrint on a Pi4-8GB). THIS is the sort of thing that really pulls a family together. In a time that so many things are trying to pull us apart. Awesome video and thanks for sharing. I very much enjoy watching your videos as they are very explanative in just the right amount. I think that it is nice to see how you use the technology that you love in a way that bleeds over into your everyday life. Keep up the good work.

[@chrissysage840]

thank u for this video, it made me happy seeing you honoring your grandpa. I was originally gonna draw my grandpa in vr but this is a great alternative. Thank you Jeff, may you grace upon others with your inspiration

[@fauzirahman3285]

Awww that ending, my heart just burst.

[@cheif10thumbs]

I buried my parents this last year. Mom and Dad were married for 62 years. They passed 9 months apart. Dad was 87 and Mom was 83. You told a beautiful story Jeff. Thank you for that. I need loud music now.

[@bobpaugh6725]

A lot of your videos are way over my head. But I watch them regardless. This one is my favorite. Great job!!!

[@RedGreen1]

Thanks for sharing an example of tech bringing people closer together.

[@tiller6750]

This was a great video, Jeff. It made me think of my own grandfather, who was also a WWII veteran. Keep up the great work!

[@AnilArya51]

0:59 So many red shirts!

[@BlurryBit]

Awwww man I feel nostalgic about this one. I did not see this coming. :)) Your Gandpa and Grandma are the best people ever!!! :))

[@gendolookin]

What an absolutely fantastic video. It will brighten the day of anyone that watches it. Thank you

[@AquaPoki]

Your grandpa must be the wonderful person in the world!

[@Deveyus]

They say you die twice, once when your heart stops and once the last time anyone thinks about you. It's good to know you've bought your grandpa a measure of immortality in all our minds. People like him are worth it.

[@RetinaBurner]

This was amazing. If I could sub again I would. I miss my Grandfather too, he was an outstanding human being. Just wish I had some pictures or something of him, but he passed back in 1986. Keep up the excellent work, Jeff :)

[@spacewolfjr]

You have honoured your grand pepper in ways he could not have imagined

[@briangoldberg4439]

sorry to hear about your grandpa. he seems like he was a really terrific guy

[@hoxorious]

Wow. You have a very cool family. Great video as always 👍

[@JustinEmlay]

I can't get enough of those time lapse videos.

[@dcuccia]

I'm not crying. Such a great tribute, Jeff, in the nerdiest love language ever. :) Thanks for sharing.

[@JeffGeerling]

"What's your love language?" "CAD and 3D printing" 🤪

[@reubenjacobmathew3844]

This was such a sweet video. Very heart warming. Thanks for sharing.

[@matterwiz1689]

These are my favourite kinds of projects

[@johnstrickland3373]

aww, love the story of your grandpa

[@JPToto]

This was delightful, Jeff. Great video as always!!

[@loswilko]

Love this video Jeff, i also love the fact that your family is also as mad as a can of spam or in this case ketchup. I have Irish relatives myself and have many fond memories of visiting them in my youth.

[@vishal01mehra]

Loved it! ❤️ The story, the Information. Just amazing.

[@joker_g7337]

It's A- freaking-MAZING! 9:53 Your are pardoned. You said it perfectly.

[@peterhe3746]

He's a fine-looking old man!

[@jaistanley]

My grandad made me the practical/engineery/maker of things I am today. Love the video. I used photogrammetry to scan the pillar in my car and I designed a tweeter/mid pod for the sound system and clad them with carbon fibre. Worked a TREAT. For the black surface to scan well, I covered it in ainters tape and scribbled on it with sharpie.

[@beardmaker]

your grandpa was and awesome man, i wish i had more time with mine :)

[@kurosmael]

Very interesting and very touching video, thanks Jeff ! Made me a bit think about my grandpa too, I was clearly not expecting that about a tech video 😅

[@achannelhasnoname5182]

That was such an wholesome story!

[@CaioVinicius-nc3cy]

Great video Jeff. Beautiful.

[@voneschenbachmusic]

Jeff-rey! lol What a beautiful tribute - he would be proud!

[@brianjgraf]

This is an amazing tribute. Amazing.

[@DIYtechie]

Loved this. Awesome tribute.

[@frankearl9285]

Oh, this vlog is so epic on so many fronts.

[@deechvogt1589]

Jeff, I waited a couple of days to click on this video and wish I hadn't. What an awesome and engaging video on 3D printing, photogrammetry and family. You are a wonderful story teller, digressions and all. Keep making your awesome content. Anyone know of an organization where we could nominate this video for an award?

[@dthacker9]

Thank you so much for your video. The tools were cool, but the story was priceless.

[@kazolar]

Fun project, and came out really well, and yea...gave me the feels -- had one grandparent who was with me through my adult years and she passed away about 6 years ago, glad she got to meet my daughter. I haven't thought about 3d printing a bust of her, kinda think my mom would get creeped out.

[@saraban5rivers]

Thank You for amazing life story, connecting all Generations

[@pb-vj1qs]

Wow, my grandpa had six children all women, fought in WW2, and his wife we called Nana too!

[@jansensharpening3239]

Wow. What an amazing tribute!

[@SlyEcho]

Maybe it would help to use a polarizer to get rid of the specular reflection and only keep the diffuse.

[@JeffGeerling]

Good idea! Someone else also suggested having the light go around with the statue, or have the camera go around the statue instead of just rotating the statue.

[@starkastic]

This was amazing on so many levels.

[@telenmar112]

This was a lovely story! I may have to try this on a burst of my great grandfather. He taught at my alma mater as the head of the geography department. While trying to impress folks at a party, I mentioned his name and a grad student said they had a bust of him in their office. A week later I was holding the bust and gave it to my grandmother, who missed her dad. Most of my cousins have a child named after him, so this would be a great way to share the statue!!

[@JeffGeerling]

That would be excellent! Good luck, and what a find to know someone else made a bust of him!

[@tim75052]

That was a great video! Thank You

[@aronseptianto8142]

the fact that you got the photogrammetry working at all is amazing, I'll definitely try the software later as for why your model is somewhat impossible to scan is because it's shiny/metallic the program thinks that the white from the shine is a part of the color, not just a bounce from the light. so they'll try to track it and get confused you can solve this problem 2 ways, 1 is to spray paint your object black and then drizzle a polkadot/dusty pattern on top of it. or you can use the lidar, which as it sounds, not that cheap knowing that this is bronze (right?) the spray paint method works since you can just wash it off later (you can even use special spray paint that's meant to be washable) and don't worry if you think you're not that good at spray painting, this is perhaps the only place where the shittier your paint job is, the better the result with be. if there's any imperfection on your coat, the software will just use it as more things to track

[@dab42bridges80]

A wonderful tribute.

[@kenrq63]

Very cool Jeff, well done.

[@ttamttam1522]

I love that in trying to get rid of a bust that was taking up too much space, you ended up scanning and printing it multiple times. What a lovely story though. As someone who had grandparents from the same era, a lot of this is very familiar.

[@JeffGeerling]

lol, and I still have the bust sitting here!

[@crenn6977]

Bravo good sir. Bravo. Fantastic video. Wish I could have put a little model of my grandpa in some model trains (his favourite thing).

[@julianrichards8337]

Great video 😁 Im currently working on a project with photogrammetry so am looking forward to reading your blogs 😁😁

[@frankearl9285]

And I have the joy of knowing part of my Grandparents- I get what you're talking to there, Jeff.

[@MichaelOfRohan]

You gotta look happy! I AM happy! That was my grandpa all the time

[@TheHobbyShopFilms]

My Ender 3 PRO has enough miles on it to go around the entire US and is still going strong. I also use the Purple glue stick on the print bed and now everything sticks perfectly. Just reapply after several prints. You can also wash (or warsh if from Missouri) it off in the sink with warm water easily. Also, check the clearance after heating up the extruder and bed using a piece of copy paper on all 4 corners and adjust to there is a slight drag.

[@JeffGeerling]

"or warsh if from Missouri" :D

[@BillYovino]

A wonderful tribute!

[@williamalbertson78]

that was a grate store thank you for sharing

[@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi-]

Aww, he love his Gampie!

[@MeinDeutschkurs]

Simply 😻

[@jaimerosariojusticia]

Forget about the photogrametry and automated photography. We want more ketchup and donut stories about your granpa.

[@JeffGeerling]

Grandpa days were the best-we'd go to grab a donut in the morning, and just sit in the donut shop a while. Then we'd do an errand or two, and then go to "Mrs. O's" for lunch. One of the workers there would always make my grilled cheese sandwich just so, and talk like Donald Duck the entire time.

[@jaimerosariojusticia]

Awesome. I always cherish and remember my grandpa and grandma (both passed away). They were awesome too.

[@Kruglord]

Aw, what a sweet video, much more moving than I expected. Also, woo, Photogrammetry! I have a masters degree in the field, specifically Geomatics engineering. You did a great job with the photos, but something that would have made the computer's job much easier are control points place around your subject. Control points are just targets that are easy for a computer to see, so they help orient your camera relative to the subject. Otherwise, the program has to orient the camera relative to features on the subject itself, but the features are what you're trying to measure in the first place, so it creates a bit of a mathematical catch-22. I can't say if it would be faster, but it would very likely be more accurate.

[@JeffGeerling]

Interesting! Could I have just put some pieces of black tape on the backdrop or something? Or would I need to also coordinate placement with the software I use?

[@Kruglord]

@@JeffGeerling you've actually got to make sure they don't move relative to your subject, so you would want them on the turn table itself. Also, for best results, I'd probably recommend what is essentially a 4x4 QR code, the edges of black squares on white background tend to be easily extracted from the photos. Using a bunch, such that at least 3 are always visible in every photo, and each one being a unique pattern will also help the software not mix up which is which and more reliably locate your camera. If you want to get really fancy, you could build a 3D model of the turn table + miniQR codes (called fiducial markers) without your subject, then use those coordinates as control for your future models. Since the relative position of the fiducial markers are known, your solution will be much stronger

[@JeffGeerling]

@@Kruglord And at this point, I'm realizing photogrammetry could be a new and adventurous rabbit hole, just like 3D printing and CAD before it! :D

[@Kruglord]

@@JeffGeerling It pairs well with both! I haven't gotten into any 3D CAD yet, but I do have an Anycubic Photon Mono. If you really want to do engineering level photogrammety, you've got to look into the self-calibrating bundle adjustment

[@onaclovtech]

I love this, and have been wanting to build a big photogrammetry rig to take pics of my kids and my parents too lol

[@xgeko2]

I really love your video's Jeff!! :)

[@applesushi]

I wasn't expecting a a touching tribute story, but I'm here for it. Also, Jeff has missed his calling as a sculptor!

[@JeffGeerling]

I used to do a lot more art... but stopped mostly after a teacher pushed me really hard one year and I kind of popped from the stress :( I still get to draw fun things with my kids though. they love "The alien who says Soup" the most, haha.

[@dany08011]

I can't believe at the end the ketchup bottle cap made a lot of sense. Also I'M CRYING

[@saracarmichael5738]

Really cool! I’m actually a Geerling as well and have been working with CAD/CAM and Fusion 360 myself. I love the video. Great job!

[@JeffGeerling]

Ah, the Bernie Geerling branch! It's funny, I know some of the Geerlings on your side through random occurrences. Good to hear from you!

[@JohnAnderson-Catfish]

Great job Jeff

[@IndianTinker]

Thanks for making this video.

[@garrettwalker5674]

Damn Jeff. This was amazing.

[@TheComputerGuyDR]

This is such a great video! Can't wait until we bump into you guys.

[@veritanuda]

That was sweet and cool and from the heart. It is really good to be able to honour the ones we love. On the subject of dunking into drinks. It is a marmite thing. You either love it or hate it. Tea and biscuits are just a perfect combination but only some biscuits are suitable for dunking. Rich Tea being one of them of course. Thanks for sharing and yeah being able to take real world photos and be able to create a computer models from them is a very powerful tool for design and creating.

[@JeffGeerling]

I could understand Oreos and milk, at least.

[@veritanuda]

@@JeffGeerling McVities Digestives and cold or milk are much better IMHO.

[@xrz1138]

The best part was getting to meet Pop!

[@jackyan1277]

Very nicely done

[@ceramicfish4934]

Great vid and sculpture