Category Archives: Consumer

3D Printers for Peace

The contest is a challenge to design things that advance the cause of peace. Continue reading

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The Kinect 2 – WOW

Add to that the applications for skeleton mapping and muscle tracking and it is hard to imagine where this will end up in 5 years from now. Continue reading

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Google Glass Review – Wink, Wink

The Saturday Night Live folks tested Google Glass. Here is there review. Continue reading

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$99 LiDAR Design Project on Kickstarter

In a recent LiDAR News article by Fran Rabuck he refers to this Kickstarter project to develop a low cost LiDAR Continue reading

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Integrating Scan Data into Real Time Video Production

Pendulum Studios (studiopendulum.com) exhibits Previs & Techvis techniques that integrate 3D environmental LIDAR scan data into their real-time virtual production pipeline Continue reading

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Google’s 3D Augmented Reality Patent

In other embodiments, the panoramic image is replaced and/or complemented with one or more of 3D models, Continue reading

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3-D Printer Primer

If you were wondering what the next BIG technology is going to be I think it is fair to say that 3-D printing is likely to be it. Continue reading

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DIY Drones and LiDAR

The second is the idea of using a Velodyne 32 as a LiDAR in a DIY drone and the third is the price – $20k for a used HDS 32. Continue reading

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MakerBot Announces Digitizer 3D Scanner Prototype

Last Friday MakerBot, the global leader in 3D printing announced that they are working on a prototype of a desktop 3D scanner. Continue reading

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The Crazyflie Nano Quadcopter

It’s being offered as an open source development platform. The price is under $200 USD. Continue reading

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