I have a question about 3D scanning devices: Why aren't they easier to access? Today a project by Thomas Megel made the rest of the handheld smart device universe look silly by comparison. With ...

3D printer enthusiasts that also enjoy building Raspberry Pi projects might be interested in the new 3D scanner that has been created by combining both a Raspberry Pi mini PC and MATLAB together. The ...

Using the grant of £1000 from Santander and a handful of awesome Raspberry Pi mini PCs, Poppy Mosbacher has created a full 3D body scanner. This innovative project aims to provide an affordable system ...

Sometimes when you walk into a hackerspace you will see somebody’s project on the table that stands so far above the norm of a run-of-the-mill open night on a damp winter’s evening, that you have to ...

A YouTube channel named 9nl has developed an open-source project on GitHub that is gaining attention for its approach to 3D reconstruction using point cloud data. The system combines both hardware and ...

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 ...

Light painting just got a three-dimensional upgrade with a new invention called HoloPainting. Students from the St. Pölten University of Applied Science, in Vienna, Austria, developed the technique ...