By Darren Allan
The world of 3D printing is a fast developing one, and increasingly more affordable (with options like the sub-£500 Ooznest PRUSA i3, pictured above), but it’s still far from novice-friendly – although new innovations are set to help on that front, with one notable device being a handheld 3D scanner.
This hardware was showed off over at the K-ICT 3D Printing Conference in South Korea, ZDNet reports, and is the brainchild of ETRI (the South Korea Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute – the global ICT research organisation founded back in 1976).
How does it work? You simply use the scanner to scan an object, and it relays the data for the dimensions and form of that object to a computer, where it can be adjusted via a simple user interface before being printed by your 3D printer.
The 3D scanner and easy to use software will avoid any tricky messing with models, and will make 3D printing far more accessible, and indeed something that members of the general public will be able to enjoy (or that’s the theory anyway).
The GUI employed uses basic functions everyone will be familiar with, and modifying a scanned design can be achieved through, for example, simple taps …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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