Developed by Andrea Settimi and colleagues at Switzerland's EPFL university, the open-source setup is appropriately enough known as Augmented Carpentry.

Hardware-wise, it consists mainly of a tablet that is mounted on the third-party saw or other power tool being utilized by the carpenter. That tablet can be swapped from tool to tool as necessary.

Users start by utilizing the tablet's camera to scan each piece of wood they've set aside for the project, thus letting the Augmented Carpentry software know what it has to work with. Next, they place an adhesive-backed marker on each piece – doing so allows the system to identify that piece later on, and to determine its orientation in three-dimensional space.