3D Scanning

The State of 3D Printing and Scanning After CES 2014: The Push For Mainstreaming Begins

The State of 3D Printing and Scanning After CES 2014: The Push For Mainstreaming Begins

The movement to mainstream 3D printing is aggressively pursuing a sea change that replaces “experimental” with “easy”.

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MAKE Editors’ Highlights and Picks from CES 2014

MAKE Editors’ Highlights and Picks from CES 2014

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.

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Nikon Creates Controllable Full-Body 3D Renders in a Snap

Nikon Creates Controllable Full-Body 3D Renders in a Snap

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.

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Adam Brandejs on the Matterform 3D Scanner

Adam Brandejs on the Matterform 3D Scanner

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. 

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Eric Krzeslo From SoftKinetic On Time-of-Flight 3D Scanning

Eric Krzeslo From SoftKinetic On Time-of-Flight 3D Scanning

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 […]

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Bmore3D: Baltimore’s one-of-a-kind 3D Printing and 3D Scanning Store

Bmore3D: Baltimore’s one-of-a-kind 3D Printing and 3D Scanning Store

Bmore3D started as a holiday 3D printing, 3D scanning, 3D modeling popup store in Baltimore. The store came together through a collaboration of Todd Blatt of Custom 3D Stuff, Michael Raphael of Direct Dimensions and ShapeShot, Baltimorean Graham Stewart, and Tinkerine Studio of Vancouver. With all of our expertise and connections in the 3D industry, we were able to put together an extremely comprehensive and exciting destination for both the typical consumer as well as the most tech savvy folks around.

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Replicating Ancient African Hominoid Fossils

Replicating Ancient African Hominoid Fossils

The African Fossils virtual laboratory website is a digital archeology project that seeks to increase public knowledge about prehistory by harnessing Autodesk 3D scanning technology. Recently, they wrote MAKE to tell us about their updated, newly re-launched website featuring stunning Sketchfab integration and downloads of prehistoric humanoid remains.

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