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 ...

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 ...

Until now, if you wanted to step up from desktop scanners to professional film negative scanning, you needed to be willing to drop a pretty penny. That’s why these hackers bolted together their own ...

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 ...

October 12, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Instructables user DHagen was sick of feeding coins into a public copy machine, wanted quality copies, but didn ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next generation of the Walabot product line, Walabot DIY Plus is the most powerful wall scanner available and the ultimate tool for any home improvement project. TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)- ...

[James] didn’t like losing detail when scanning in photographic negatives, so he repurposed an old scanner and turned it into a lightbox. The Flickr set of the build shows [James] installing a compact ...