September has been a busy month. Tyler and I have moved from the east bay to San Mateo in search of more space to do our work in!

However while that was successful, this month has been filled with more rejection from potential financiers for this project. The VC world is very funny, no one ever says "no", but, instead they say "come back later", "now's not the time", or some variant thereof. Chiefly, it appears that manufacturing for most investors doesn't seem to be an exciting opportunity, and, as we add up the overhead costs it's easy to see why. For most low-ticket items, it's just barely worth it in America, and this is unlikely to change any time soon.

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Given this frustrating situation, we've decided that it's worth attempting to bootstrap our work by designing an x-ray scanner usable by makers. Particularly, a desktop CT scanner! Much of this month has been spent designing this scanner, in a manner to be as affordable as possible, and, writing code to handle the cone-beam back-projection, and CV functions to interpolate the sparse-ly sampled data.

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This scanner uses a simpler x-ray source, which is no more than a transformer, fancy plastic, an H bridge and ATMEGA-32. It's not yet complete however, and so, we have few useful designs to share.

Mainboard: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwIWrZZX8IW6eWl2d1JYcFYzQm8/view?usp=sharing

HV PCB: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwIWrZZX8IW6ajVUQlVQcGJPNWc/view?usp=sharing

However, if you'd like the partially-completed CAD models, feel free to say so!

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