On a rainy day a friend came by with a Minolta Dimage Scan Dual. He could not get it to work on a Windows XP machine so had no job for it anymore. "You can make it usefull?". Oh yes, I can. With about 2500 slides on the shelf waited to be scanned manually, the idea came to me to build an assistant in scanning. The unit shifts the rail one step forward, pushes a slide in the scanner and grabs it again after scanning. The rail and slides are moved by steppermotors, and the motorcontrollers are connected to the PIO. The software used are COM files assambled from ASM source.
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