This Big, Weird Sculpture Can 3D Scan Your Face
Place your face inside and this sculpture will create a 3D scan, then digest it and add it to the average scans from everyone else.
3D Scanning
Autonomous Robots, Cars, and Drones… What Will You Do with Lidar?
As prices tumble, lidar is becoming the go-to tool for autonomous robotic vision — and its applications go well beyond autonomous vehicles.
My First Week as an Artist in Residence at the Maker Media Lab
I came to Maker Media Lab with a couple of projects in mind for my short stint as artist in residence: Louis Sullivan 3D printed architectural reference book Arduino controlled 3D printer filament pigmentation device 3D scanning with drones During my first week in the lab, I chose to focus on the Sullivan book project. […]
HP Announces New Sprout 3D Scanning Platform
Today, HP has some exciting new announcements for those interested in 3D scanning using their Sprout platform. The Sprout by HP is a ground-breaking piece of computing hardware that incorporates a touch screen, all in one desktop computer with a projector, capture surface, an Intel RealSense 3D camera, and a 14 megapixel traditional camera. These features allow users […]
HP Sprout Announces Partnership with Dremel
Today HP’s Sprout division announced a partnership with Dremel to help move toward a full-cycle approach to 3D printing and scanning
Spanish Company Scans and 3D Prints Every Resident of Village
A Spanish 3D printing firm demonstrated a new scanner by creating 3D scans of all 318 residents of Torrequebradilla, a small village in southern Spain, in just one day. The event was part of a nationwide promotional tour organized by Grupo Sicnova to advertise the scanning speed of the Clonescan 3D, a seven-foot scanning apparatus, […]
3D Scans are 3 Times Faster with Sense Scanner Upgrade
If you are interested in scanning larger objects — people, for example — there are few options on the market better than the 3D Systems Sense scanner. While on the hardware side it only boasts the same type of sensor that you can find in your XBox 360 Kinect (albeit in a much more handheld, user-friendly form), […]