Creating a portfolio can be tedious. Being a maker doesn't just end at inventing awesome hardware projects, one also has to figure out how to show them off professionally to impress employers. On one hand, initially designing a project using CAD software like SolidWorks allows you to take impressive graphical renderings of the model, like the ones used in this report. However, a model is only able to depict so much about the final physical product. Taking standard photos using a phone in bad lighting is far less than ideal. The conventional way of fixing this problem is using a Studio Box , but they tend to be super expensive for the amount of functionality they provide. I created Project Studio to solve this problem for myself. I realized the need for a device that would enable me to take professional photos, videos, and 3D scans of my hardware projects when creating my portfolio. The result (figure 1) of a semester long design process is a device that incorporates a rotati...
