"All right, we're gonna go forward with the burn ... like we talked about, " said a voice on a local police scanner frequency.

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Broadcastify streams around 3, 500 scanner channels, including local law enforcement, fire departments, weather service, emergency medical services and the International Space Station.

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The Edmonds Community College team used the NextEngine 3D scanner for a fun local project that needed to scan a Jimi Hendrix sculpture.

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He says there were plenty of ideas about how to improve local services, such as a community-based gynaecology service with a specialist and a scanner.

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