laser scanning

3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 8, 2024

In this month’s first 3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup, things are picking up! There are multiple in-person events this week, including the TETS Symposium, Additive Manufacturing in Medicine, a…

Improving Intelligent Crop Breeding with 3D Printed Sugar Beet Plant

A team of German researchers are working to bring farming into the future by developing AI-assisted crop pipeline improvement. By using laser scanning and consumer-grade FDM 3D printing, they were…

UpNano’s Nano 3D Printing Achieves Centimeter-Scale with High Resolution in Minutes

Vienna, Austria-based company UpNano, which is commercializing an ultrafast, nano and microscale 3D printing system called the NanoOne, has added even more laser power to its solution. Combine that with…

ORNL Scientists Make Fake Fish with 3D Printing and Sensors to Research Environmental Impact of Hydropower Dams

Hydropower – electricity generated with the energy of moving water – is the largest source of utility-scale energy storage and renewable energy in the US, making up 6% of the…

LiDar and its Applications Part 10 – Flood Prevention

In this article, we talk briefly about how we can use LiDar to inform our risk analysis for floods.

LiDar and its Applications Part 3 – Micro-Topography

Topographic Map Briefly in the previous article, I brought up a topic or domain that is vital for different LiDar applications. In college, I distinctly remember in some of my…

LiDar and its Applications Part 1 – The Rabbit Hole of Applications

LiDar Truly I get too excited talking about technology, and I hope it shows. Although technology is awesome, there always lies a need for it to have a function or…

Laser Scanning and Cultural Heritage

This is a quick intro to my discovery of laser scanning and metrology applied to the topic of culture heritage.

What is Metrology Part 24: Conclusion

This is the conclusion of our 25 part metrology series. It has lead to a lot of self analysis and future study due to curiosity.

3Dflow Computer Vision Software

This is a brief company analysis of 3Dflow as well as a promotion for their upcoming workshop in September.

3D Scanner Buying Guide 2017

3D scanning is no simple trick. I know it; I designed a full-body 3D scanning system for iMakr’s New York store in 2014, and though it wasn’t my first foray…

Scan Pyramids: International Research Team Attempts to See Inside the Pyramids with 3D Scanning and Other Technologies

One of Superman’s superpowers is his X-Ray vision, inspiring countless children with superhero aspirations to declare that they, too, can see through walls. Little did the children of my generation…