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Bambu Lab Launches ‘MakerLab Experiments’ with AI-Powered 3D Scanning

by Adam Kohut
Published Mar 14, 2024

Prototypes of an AI scanner and a 3D to Relief Sculpture tool serve as additions to the current MakerLab repository.

Bambu Lab has launched “MakerLab Experiments”: prototype 3D modeling applications that currently include an “AI scanner” and a “3D to Relief Sculpture” tool.

The addition of MakerLab Experiments expands BambuLab’s existing MakerLab offering – a beginner-friendly feature in the company’s MakerWorld repository that launched earlier this year and helps users create 3D models without CAD. MakerLab already includes three tools: Make My Sign, Make My Vase, and Pixel Puzzle Maker, which allow users to create custom signs (or similar items), vases, and puzzles using pixel-style artwork, respectively.

Now, MakerLab Experiments have arrived. The tools it offers are prototypes, Bambu Lab says, and require user feedback to help refine them, so that they may one day be officially released. Some tools, however, many never reach that point – hence “experiments”.

With the AI Scanner, users can generate a 3D model with their mobile device by taking video of stationary “common objects and human portraits”. Model generation takes about 30 minutes, Bambu Lab says, although it may take longer depending on server availability. A video of the results on Bambu Lab’s blog looks fairly rudimentary, but it’s still impressive for what it seems will be another free tool, if Bambu Lab carries on with the current MakerLab strategy.

The 3D to Relief Sculpture tool, meanwhile, allows users to import STL or OBJ models, choose a perspective, frame it, and generate 3D printable relief art.

You can read the full write-up on MakerLab Experiments on Bambu Lab’s blog, or test it out yourself by logging in to MakerWorld.

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Adam Kohut

Adam is a contributing writer who joined All3DP in 2022 and has more than a decade in tech journalism. He has written for UltiMaker, Protolabs, and many other (tech) startups and corporates worldwide.

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