Pour yourself a nice hot cup of tea, because [iliasam]’s latest work on a laser rangefinder (in Russian, translated here) is a long and interesting read. The shorter version is that he got his hands ...

An Arduino-based 3D scanner was created by an industrious 3D printing enthusiast and released open source this week for all to enjoy. This open source project was made to take out the most ...

Meticulous. Thorough. Exacting. These are all words we’d use to describe this video by [BrendaEM] about her Homemade 3D Optical Interference Scanner which can be seen after the break. The scanner uses ...

Microsoft may have hit on a mixed jackpot with the Kinect. While Xbox gamers might consider it a very optional, sometimes even unwanted, accessory, makers and tinkerers have flocked to it for how it ...

This article was taken from the August 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...

The future, as they say, is already here, but it’s just not very evenly distributed. To wit: the Zeus, a 3D printer that can scan and copy objects and, using the Internet, “fax” objects to other ...

HAS BEEN AROUND FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS, CAPTURING A ONE DIMENSIONAL LIKENESS OF THE AREA THAT WAS THEN. THIS IS NOW 21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGY. PUTTING CRIME SCENE EVIDENCE INTO A 360 DEGREE CONTEXT.

Fred Kahl implored 6-year-old Freddie McCann to remain very still this morning so Kahl's homemade 3D scanner could capture a proper image of the boy's body as it turned slowly on a revolving platform.