Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had ...

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 ...

About two and half years ago, the Google Books team open-sourced the plans for their book scanning rig, and there was much rejoicing. As [Dany Qumsiyeh] explained in the Google Tech talk we linked to ...

Using an Arduino Due development board, Kerry Wong has created an awesome Arduino-controlled single pixel scanner. This innovative project utilizes the skeleton of a hacked HP 7044A plotter to scan ...

This Arduino NFC slot scans a DVD case sticker, pairs it with a hard-drive file, and plays the movie at a button press. Use genre-labelled cases to pick movies randomly; press again to skip to another ...

The Arduino has long since proven itself to be one of the biggest boons to DIY heads since the soldering iron, but that doesn't mean it's not still able to impress, as amply demonstrated by this ...

Consumer film scanners don’t provide enough detail, and professional models require too much money and pampering. What’s a dedicated film nerd to do? For Peter De Smidt, the answer was to build his ...