For nearly two years, Daniel Reetz dreamed of a book scanner that could crunch textbooks and spit out digital files he could then read on his PC. Book scanners, like the ones Google is using in its ...

[Ben Krasnow] built his own version of the TSA’s body scanner. The device works by firing a beam of x-rays at at target. Some of the beam will go through the target, some will be absorbed by the ...

It’s a scenario that the Yiddish writers of yore could never have predicted, and yet by which they likely would have been tickled: Today, their work is being digitized with the help of a home-made ...

Jeri Ellsworth probably saw all the fun the TSA was having with their scanners and decided, ‘hey, maybe I can build my own’. And by hacking a satellite dish to act as her backscatter and centimeter ...

The DIY 3D Scanner is a device used in an object replication. This project is build for scanning actual object details using IR sensor with a custom electronic board. It features a full DIY 3D printed ...

A project that volunteers volunteered to digitize textbooks by using volunteers using the DIY kit produced by volunteers on the Internet was done by students learning the relationship between ...

With the introduction of the Kinect, obtaining a 3D representation of a room or object became a much easier task than it had been in the past. If you lack the necessary cash for one however, you have ...

If you're tired of your scanner just doing its job and not even bothering to look cool you might check out this DIY project. Let's face it, Legos are the about as bad ass as you can get, so a scanner ...

Tech aficionados are wont to argue about which Steve really built Apple. Anyone who read iWoz knows that the real creator of Apple was Jerry Wozniak, the father who zipped and bulk downloaded the ...