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BMW claims to be the first automaker to implement a robotic optical measuring cell that can create a digital model of a full-sized vehicle in half the time of previous efforts.

Ever wanted to build a particle accelerator in your basement? Well if one University of Liverpool PhD student gets his way, you may soon be able to do that – with LEGO.

A team of schoolkids from the UK has built a rocket-powered mini racing car capable of reaching speeds of over 48 mph. Slim Jim won the inaugural BBC micro:bit Model Rocket Car Competition, for which participants had to use foam, solid fuel rockets and BBC micro:bit computers to build their cars.

It would be remiss of us to let today pass without saying "May the Fourth be with you!" While Star Wars Day lasts for only 24 hours, there have been three days of preparation at Legoland Malaysia as it has been building what it claims is the largest ever Lego Millennium Falcon.

How does buying a brand new Porsche 911 for US$300 sound? Well now's your chance, because Lego has announced a new Technic model version of the car's GT3 RS variant. The 1:8 scale model measures 57 x 25 x 17 cm (22 x 10 x 7 in) and was developed in partnership with Porsche.

A London-based team has created a unique model for people keen to track the Moon's cycle. MOON is a 3D lunar model fitted with a rotating LED arm that mimics the Sun's position, allowing you to watch the Moon wax and wane on your coffee table.

NASA has released a browser-based application that allows citizen scientists to explore the surface of the asteroid Vesta. The 3D model was created from data harvested by the agency's Dawn spacecraft over the course of its year-long stay in orbit around the asteroid.

Today, Venice is regarded as one of the prettiest cities in the world. If you've ever wondered what it looked like in the past, however, an ambitious project may soon be able to show you. Venice Time Machine wants to digitize the city's vast archive and create a 1,000-year evolving model of it.

A fresh analysis of data collected by NASA's WISE telescope has cast doubt on the widely accepted unified model for the composition of black holes. The study examined 170,000 supermassive black holes, and will require scientists to present new theories on the structure of these stellar giants.

Chances are one of the materials up for consideration in building the International Space Station was not matchsticks. But for one Iowa artist the idea of using 282,000 matchsticks and gallons of glue to hand-build a scale model of the ISS seemed like a perfectly reasonable idea.

There are a number of companies that offer to print 3D figurines in your likeness, however they require a visit to their location for a scan. Shapify has launched a service that lets users scan themselves at home, using a Kinect.

Taking the title of the world’s largest Lego model is a 1:1 scale replica of an X-Wing made up of 5,335,200 Lego bricks and taking 32 Lego master builders 17,336 hours (around four months) to complete.