Book on laser scanning now available

[Pangolin]

Hi guys,

Once you've had a chance to go through the book (to whatever extent you'd like), if you believe I've done a good job and the book is valuable, please take time to review the book on Amazon. So far there are no reviews and the page is kind of empty without them ;-)

Bill

[dkumpula]

The print version really is much better than the Kindle version. Kindle is great, and was my first place to publish. But this book has more than 180 full-color pictures and illustrations and Kindle just doesn't really lend itself to that very well...

Hey Bill,

Just FYI, I'm using the free Kindle apps for my iPhone, iPad and PC (yes, I loaded it on all three ) and your colorful illustrations/pictures look great with these apps. I'd agree that the typical B&W Kindle reader would be limiting for this read though. I'll pick up the paperback shortly though. Studies show that reading from paper results in better retention than reading from screens.

Thanks again for taking the time to write this! I'll submit a review when I get further into it.

-David

[juanma666]

Hi, Bill.

I bought his book (Kindle).
Thanks for your job.


Best Regards.
Juanma.

[Pangolin]

Thanks guys,

On Kindle one problem I ran into was a file size limitation. If you poke around on Google, you eventually find information that Amazon doesn't publish -- information essentially reverse-engineered by some publishers. At the 99 cent price-point, file size can't be much over 3.5MB. The PDF for the print version is around 55MB so clearly something's gotta give... I therefore made sacrifices in image size, image quality, and removed around 40 pages from the Kindle version (the 40 that talk about our Saturn scanners -- which I felt, for the reader, was the least important part). In the future I might make only a single version, but then Amazon will force me to charge more for the Kindle version.

By the way, on the screen shot attached you'll see how much money I'm making off of this. One hell of a way to earn a living ;-)



Bill

[masterpj]

Bought the book just now. Should be here in a week.

[Shadow]

Hey Bill this book looks like it's going to be really helpful. You wouldn't happen to have it in pdf format would you?

[Bradfo69]

Arrived this morning and have already read a couple chapters.

[kecked]

I learned more reading this on pid design then in college. I see how dsp can be so handy. Only issue is latency.
I wonder if you turned the x mirror to a cylinder lens if you could amplify the movement. Beam in optic off mirror back through optic and out. Now you can run faster cuz you have to move less.

[masterpj]

I learned more reading this on pid design then in college. I see how dsp can be so handy. Only issue is latency.
I wonder if you turned the x mirror to a cylinder lens if you could amplify the movement. Beam in optic off mirror back through optic and out. Now you can run faster cuz you have to move less.

Wouldn't this distort the beam? especially if you are correcting back and forth.. optics aren't perfect and those kind of optics sound heavy as galvo mirrors too.

[kecked]

Wouldn't this distort the beam? especially if you are correcting back and forth.. optics aren't perfect and those kind of optics sound heavy as galvo mirrors too.

Probably but I have no idea. It would however add weight now that I thought a bit. That weight and change of gravity center might be worse than the extra deflection. Moving back to the book......