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Aluminium cans are all around us, and are one of readily recyclable. While you can turn them into more cans, [Burls Art] had other ideas. Instead, he turned roughly 1000 …read more Continue reading 1000 Aluminium Cans Cast Into A Guitar
Casting parts in silicone is great, and 3D printing in resin is fantastic for making clean shapes, so it’s natural for an enterprising hacker to want to put the two …read more Continue reading Stop Silicone Cure Inhibition, No Fancy or Expensive Products Required
When you want a couple copies of a thing, you can 3D print ’em. When you want a ton of them, you might consider making a mold. If those are …read more Continue reading Casting Parts in Urethane: Tips from a Master
If you’ve ever wondered how large, hollow plastic structures like tanks and drums are formed, you’re in luck: [Andy] not only fills us in on the details of rotational casting …read more Continue reading A Rotocasting Machine Sized for the Home Shop
Have you ever played with Rose’s metal? It’s a fusible alloy of bismuth, lead, and tin with a low melting point of around 100 °C. Historically, it’s been used as …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Molds for Casting Rose’s Metal
If you need a lens for a project, chances are pretty good that you pick up a catalog or look up an optics vendor online and just order something. Practical, …read more Continue reading The Ins and Outs of Casting Lenses from Epoxy
Regular doorknobs are widely reviled for their bare simplicity, but by and large society has so many other problems that it never really comes up in day to day conversation. …read more Continue reading Making a Metal Hand Doorknob
Things might be getting a bit dicey out in Jezero crater for Ingenuity. The little helicopter that could is starting to have trouble dealing with the thinning Martian atmosphere, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 19, 2021
Prolific maker [Jan Mrázek] shared his process for casting soft silicone parts that nevertheless have some added stiffness, which he accomplished by embedding porous, 3D-printed “ribs” into the pieces during …read more Continue reading Casting Silicone Parts With 3D-Printed Inserts For Stiffness
3D printing with plastics and resins is great for quickly prototyping parts with all manner of geometries, but strength and durability of the parts produced is often limited. One way …read more Continue reading Casting A Simple 3D Print in Aluminium