Blending real objects with 3D prints

It’s very subtle, but if you saw [Greg]‘s 3D printed stone to Lego adapter while walking down the street, it might just cause you to stop mid-stride.

This modification to real objects begin with [Greg] taking dozens of pictures of the target object at many different angles. These pictures are then imported into Agisoft PhotoScan which takes all these photos … Read the rest

Visualizing water droplets and building a CT scanner

Since his nerves were wracked by presenting his project to an absurdly large crowd at this year’s SIGGRAPH, [James] is finally ready to share his method of mixing fluids via optical tomography with a much larger audience: the readership of Hackaday.

[James]‘ project focuses on the problem of modeling mixing liquids from a multi-camera setup. The hardware is fairly basic, … Read the rest