LulzBot and BQ have teamed up to market a new open source 3D scanner called Ciclop, that will soon be available to purchase priced at $400 in the US.

Using the power of Arduino and utilizing the camera and powerful performance of a smartphone, QLRO has created a fantastic 3D scanner aptly named the AAScan. This innovative device leverages the ...

CowTech's version is based on another open-source 3D scanner, the $400 BQ Ciclop, but a few tweaks dropped the price to a mere $99.

Known as the DISC3D (Darmstadt Insect Scanner 3D), the open-source prototype device was developed over a period of four years by a joint team from Technische Universität Darmstadt and Darmstadt ...

We’ve said our piece over Makerbot and their interpretation of what Open Source means, but the fact remains if you’re sourcing a 3D printer for a high school shop class or a hackerspace… ...

But not impossible, thanks to low cost, freely available hardware, and to the existence of 3D printers. Matthew Epler has built what he describes as an Open Source film scanner.