Using the power of Arduino and utilizing the camera and powerful performance of a smartphone, QLRO has created a fantastic 3D scanner aptly named the AAScan. This innovative device leverages the ...

LulzBot and BQ have teamed up to market a new open source 3D scanner called Ciclop, that will soon be available to purchase priced at $400 in the US.

CowTech's version is based on another open-source 3D scanner, the $400 BQ Ciclop, but a few tweaks dropped the price to a mere $99.

We’ve said our piece over Makerbot and their interpretation of what Open Source means, but the fact remains if you’re sourcing a 3D printer for a high school shop class or a hackerspace… ...

But not impossible, thanks to low cost, freely available hardware, and to the existence of 3D printers. Matthew Epler has built what he describes as an Open Source film scanner.

Not long ago, photogrammetry — the process of stitching multiple photographs taken from different angles into a 3D whole — was hard stuff. Nowadays, it’s easy. [Mikolas Zuza] over… ...