3D printer enthusiasts that also enjoy building Raspberry Pi projects might be interested in the new 3D scanner that has been created by combining both a Raspberry Pi mini PC and MATLAB together.

With OpenScan project software, Raspberry Pi, and the Pi camera v2.1, Megel created a budget-friendly 3D-scanning system that's able to capture highly accurate 10-micron 3D scans with relative ease.

Might be interested in a new Raspberry Pi 3D scanner project published to the Hackaday.io website by member Jolar.

Project #4 (fiendish): 3d scanner For the truly ambitious, this 42-Pi 3D scanner can capture a complete 360 degree image of any object up to and including a human-sized one.

There is more to come from this project, so it is definitely one to watch. Four Pi boards may seem a lot, but it is nothing to this scanner with 39 of them.

That is the very mission that Mario Lukas set out to do, to build a handheld 3D scanner made from affordable off shelf components, like, say, a Microsoft Kinect and the latest Raspberry Pi 2.

This Raspberry Pi project is already getting far more than the usual number of likes and follows, making this one of the most interesting Raspberry Pi projects in recent memory.

Thanks to the affordable Raspberry Pi board the project is based on, PiEEG will be much cheaper compared to other DIY bio-scanning devices.

Looking for a next project with the Raspberry Pi Pico? Well, how about 3D printing a mechanical keyboard!