I've been seeing this "zig-zag" living hinge technique all over the web since we covered snijlab's apparent invention of the method six weeks ago. "Snijlab-style living hinges" is kind of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday December 8th, 2011 4:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Workshop | No Comments
Instructables user bfgreen makes small, lightweight, waterproof containers like this by sawing off plastic soda bottle necks right below the lip, flattening the cut edges on a file, applying cyanoacrylate...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday November 23rd, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: Energy, Tools | 6 Comments
Rich was curious about printing with polycarbonate (PC), but couldn't find any definitive answers to his questions online. So he bought a roll of 1.6mm PC filament and started experimenting,...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday October 10th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Science | 4 Comments
As I wrote about a month ago, one of the many unusual phenomena Ben Krasnow has produced in his garage is supercritical CO2. As you may recall, Ben machined a...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday October 5th, 2011 9:00 AM
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Recently, I posted about German firm Serrox Technischer Handel’s video showing an interesting alternative to the basic slab-joint method for building an acrylic box. Their technique, which involves cutting 90-degree...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday September 30th, 2011 4:25 PM
Categories: Craft | No Comments
UK educational supply center centre Mindsets online sells variously-sized 3mm thick sample sheets of Eastman’s Spectar copolyester at not-completely-outlandish prices. Spectar supposedly looks and handles much like acrylic, but with...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Friday September 30th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Craft, Education, Science | 9 Comments
Though "plastic" has now largely overcome its "The Graduate"-era connotation of “necessarily cheap, fake, and ephemeral,” it remains the case that plastic objects—especially those manufactured early in the history of...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Thursday September 29th, 2011 9:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Science | No Comments
Make: Live episode 17 features 3D modeling and printing and was live from the MakerBot workshop in Brooklyn, NY. Learn about the software and hardware toolchain for realizing your imagination...
Posted by Becky Stern | Thursday September 29th, 2011 8:32 AM
Categories: 3D Printing, General, Makers | No Comments
ShapeLock is an amazingly useful polycaprolactone plastic that starts to melt and become moldable at 160ºF. When it cools to room temperature it becomes rigid and tough with qualities similar...
Posted by Michael Castor | Wednesday September 28th, 2011 2:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, General | No Comments
A commenter on my recent post about using cheap paint-stripper DCM to solvent-weld acrylic hipped me to this cool method of making thicker-bodied acrylic adhesives by dissolving acrylic chips in...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Wednesday September 28th, 2011 9:00 AM
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Following on the heels of our Working with ABS piece, here's a Make: Project that furthers your working with ABS (assembling via rivets) and includes use of translucent polycarbonate sheeting...
Posted by Gareth Branwyn | Tuesday September 27th, 2011 9:30 PM
Categories: Craft, Furniture | No Comments
Neat off-the-wall idea from Instructables user blightdesign, who’s been experimenting with preserving folded paper by rubberizing it with Plasti-Dip. More pics in B. Light Design’s Flickr set.
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Tuesday September 27th, 2011 1:00 PM
Categories: General, Science | No Comments
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