Category: Engineering

robocular 3d scanner guide

Beginner’s Guide To 3D Scanning: What it is, and What it Can Do

This is the first article in our new series, Experts Explain. Read all about the series here, or check out other articles in the series here. In this article, 3D scanning expert Antoine El Daher will teach you what 3D scanning is, how it works, and how you can use it. So, what is 3D scanning exactly? 3D scanning turns physical objects into their...

Forget 3D Printing… Print an Entire paperback book (Photo Tour)

How many times have you gone to a book store, only to find they didn’t have the book you needed? What if they could just print up a new copy for you, instead of shipping one from another store, and you could walk out 20 minutes later with a book? This technology exists, and it’s made it into about a dozen bookstores and colleges...

Speedy Sony Engineers Build 3 Devices in 5 Minutes(Video)

Sony released several new devices at CES 2013, and they also showed the press a video which they have just made public of their engineers constructing three devices by hand in 5 minutes. The engineers start with a pile of precompiled tools and parts, and they put together the impressive machines (a camcorder, a camera, and their Xperia Z smartphone) in only 5 Minutes....