Unrestricted 3D scans from Uncle Sam. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a memorandum directing federal agencies to develop a plan in the next six months to make their scientific collections publicly available. It’s the first step towards creating a central repository of all of the Government’s 3D scans. And the Government has a lot of things to be scanned.
3D printed clothing is good for more than just wearable art and sculpture. With proper design and construction, it can accomplish amazing feats of flexibility, durability, and reliability.
The movement to mainstream 3D printing is aggressively pursuing a sea change that replaces “experimental” with “easy”.
This week at CES 2014 we saw a lot of the typical fare: televisions, tablets, cameras, and phones. But we also saw robots, 3D printers and scanners, drones, and even some hardware development boards. Here’s some of our favorites.
Nikon’s xxArray takes 3D motion capture beyond the next level with a system that quickly creates a photographic, fully-articulated render of any person and then seamlessly inserts it into video game environments as a fully-moveable digital character.
Adam Brandejs, the co-creator of the Matterform 3D scanner chats with MAKE Digital Fabrication Editor Anna Kaziunas France at CES 2014 about his first product launch, Indiegogo challenges, and making going mainstream.
I met with SoftKinetic’s Chief Marketing Officer Eric Krzeslo at their suite in the LVH to ask him about their new partnership with MakerBot to enhance their 3D camera technology for 3D scanning that was announced Monday at CES 2014. SoftKinetic is provides 3D vision and and gesture recognition technologies for the consumer electronics, automotive and industrial markets; who license their intellectual […]
