Jonathan Arbib

Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein have embarked on a fun, educational road trip. They’ve packed a Prius with 3D printers, dubbed it the Pocket Factory, and are traveling around the country exposing people to 3D printing and the potential of desktop manufacturing.

[Source: http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/20/the-pocket-factory-takes-to-the-road/]

Definitely worth following these guys if you are in the USA!

Twitter: @pocketfactory22

Website: http://pocketfactory.org

Look slike a good idea for small form-factor drones :-)

The OrcaM Orbital Camera System will take any object placed into its maw and create a submillimeter accurate 3D model, complete with color, texture, and reflectivity maps. Seven individual cameras orbit around the sphere with the object inside it, taking simultaneous high resolution pictures while different combinations of projected light and shadow are used to help define object geometry. It’s completely automatic, and when OrcaM is done taking pictures, you can pull the original out unharmed along with a perfectly rendered digital copy.

Source: [http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/20/news-from-the-future-reconstruction-sphere-makes-digital-copy-of-anything/]

As you may already know, David Lang, our Zero to Maker columnist, is involved in the OpenROV project, an open source camera-equipped R/C submersible, designed to look for water-burired treasure. They’re taking the ROV prototypes up to Hall City Cave in Northern, CA tomorrow for some preliminary dives. How exciting!

Source: [http://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/22/openrov-to-perform-preliminary-dives/]