MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner overview: That takes approximately twelve minutes per object, MakerBot says, so don't think of this as the 3D scanner equivalent of a photocopier.

So, unless someone takes the time to reverse engineer those parts and make 3D printable files for the rest of us, that's the end of it. Except that electronics maker GPD did just that.

Part 2 of an end-to-end story about the design and manufacturability of a golf putter looks at reverse engineering and additive manufacturing parameters for this project.

Any file has around 100 triillion possible different keys that would need to be guessed to reverse its distortion, and Plummer-Fernandez points out that the technique can be repeated on the same ...