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For sure.
It’s a canon Lide 30 scanner at its core. You have to remove the light source (a tiny RGB LED) and a pinhole array from the front of the sensor. Then I used a dremel to widen the slit the sensor looks through, to deal with some pretty severe vignetting. The optical assembly is made from foam board, gaffers tape and an acrylic lens liberated from a regular magnifying glass. I use a software called VueScan to perform the actual scan.
I’ve used and supported VueScan for years. And have a crappy old scanner that I have no other use for. What you did here is amazing. Bravo! I may attempt it some time soon . Super Nifty!