iPhone Document Scanner

Here’s a neat cardboard iPhone document scanner rig. Cincinnati design student Kyle A Koch designed this cleaver contraption that suspends your iPhone just the right height to have it snap shots of paper documents, essentially turning the whole thing into a document scanner, sort of. Now that we can snap stills of our hardcopies why [...]

3D Scanning With Milk And Legos

What do you get when you mix Legos and some Milk? Yes, you do get a 6 year olds dream, but you also get a 3D scanner. Just take some Lego, milk, and a web cam and use the software from Moviesandbox to input the image to your computer. It’s so simple that you end [...]

Cheap DYI Laser Cutter

I’m been trying to source decent desktop laser cutter for the Lab with Leo TV show that I’m on. The biggest problem is finding anything that would be a reasonable cost for most consumers. Decent desktop laser solutions can easily run you into the thousands and they are big and ugly. Thanks to the wonderful [...]

Poor Mans 3d Scanner

Don’t have $4000 + to purchase a high end 3d scanner? Using a simple web cam, a free (as in beer) piece of windows software and a laser line level you too can achieve the same stunning results. The David Laserscanner does just that. Here’s what you’ll need to get started: – A camera (e.g. [...]

Trusty Handheld Lead Scanner

With all of these projects being banned here in Canada from China due to Lead contamination this portable Lead scanner might just be right up my alley. It’s gotten so bad that Toy r Us here is Canada recalled all baby bibs that were lined with plastic purchased in the past two years no matter [...]

Learn to Hack

Every blog about security needs to post an article like this, as sort of a RTFM reference. Without further ado: First and foremost, hacking is knowing how something operates inside and out, and then making it do something that it wasn’t intended on doing. Now, that could be anything from exploiting DCOM on an unpatched [...]