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February 27, 2011 09:51 am PST

Kinect as 3D scanner: Fabricate Yourself

A new project uses the Microsoft Kinect as a crude 3D scanner. Joris from i.materialise sez, "Fabricate Yourself is a tool by Karl Willis of Interactive Fabrication. Released at the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference, the tool lets people strike a pose in front of a Microsoft Kinect. If they like the pose they can 3D print the result. The tool is not yet finished and improvements in resolution have to be made." Fabricate Yourself: Using the Microsoft Kinnect to 3D print yourself (Thanks, Joris, via Submitterator!) Free Kinect drivers released; Adafruit pays $3k bounty to hacker ... Dancing with Invisible Light: portraits shot with Kinect's ... Microsoft promises not to sue Kinect hackers - Boing Boing Princess Leia demo with Kinect and holographic projector - Boing Boing...


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