As spotted by Hackaday, this excellent project is called the PiLiDAR, and you can check out its GitHub page for the source code and instructions on how to build it. If you've never heard of LiDAR ...

To use Trace, users scan the room around them with either an iPad or iPhone equipped with LiDAR and iOS 17. After, within Trace, the scan will be viewable as a 3D model.

' PiLiDAR ' is a project to develop a homemade 360-degree 3D panoramic scanner using the single-board computer Raspberry Pi and a LiDAR sensor, allowing anyone to build a portable 3D scanning ...

In seconds, Trace will have a 3D model to draw over and users can scan an entire house or space room by room. (Note: LiDAR available on iPhone 12 Pro or later and iPad Pro Gen 4 or later. Please ...

Introduced a few years ago, the LiDAR scanner is available on the Pro and Pro Max models of the iPhone 12, 13, 14, and 15, as ...

While in a room with the robot, a researcher would scan their surroundings using Record3D, an iPhone app that uses the phone’s lidar system to take a 3D video to share with the robot.