The old gen 1 Kinect ... 360 Kinects are winding up at yard sales and your local Goodwill, you might even have a chance to pick one up for pocket change. Until now, though, scanning objects in 3D ...

Even though this project is just the result of software developers getting bored at their job, there’s a lot of potential in the 3D scanning ... are the xBox 360 Kinect and the ASUS Xtion.