Collaborate Disseminate
In a year of semiconductor shortages it’s a difficult task to deliver an electronic conference badge, so this year’s BornHack camp in Denmark had an SAO prototyping board as its …read more Continue reading The BornHack Badge Gets A Bubble
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
How hard could it be to make a collapsible silicone container? Turns out, it’s really, really hard — collapsible containers have rigid guidelines. Just ask [Eric Strebel], who failed dozens …read more Continue reading How to Make a Collapsible Container Without Breaking Down
Resin casting is a fantastic way to produce highly detailed parts in a wide variety of colors and properties, and while the process isn’t complicated, it does require a certain …read more Continue reading Modular Box Design Eases Silicone Mold-Making
You know the old trope: James Bond is killed but it turns out to be someone else in an incredibly good-looking Sean Connery mask. Mission: Impossible and Scooby Doo regularly …read more Continue reading Spy Tech: CIA Masks in Five Minutes or Less
For people who work with wheeled robots or RC vehicles, sooner or later one gets interested in making custom tires instead of dealing with whatever is available off the shelf. [concreted0g]’s …read more Continue reading Solid Tips for Casting Colored Silicone Tires
If you’ve got one of something and you want more, duplicating it with a silicone mold can be a great way to go. This is applicable to 3D printing something you need many copies of, and a whole variety of …read more
Most of us have a junk drawer, full of spare parts yanked from various places, but also likely stocked with materials we bought for a project but didn’t use completely. Half a gallon of wood glue, a pile of random, scattered resistors, or in [Ken]’s case, closed-cell silicone foam. Wanting …read more
We’ve already seen quite a number of skin-adhered sensors that track people’s vital signs. That’s all very well and good if you’re human, but what if you’re a fur-covered animal? Well, there’s now a sensor that works on them, too.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Fur is no problem for vitals-monitoring squishy sensor
The border between consumer electronics and DIY projects is getting harder and harder to define. First it was PCBs, which quickly went from homemade to professional with quick-turn services. Then low-cost CAD/CAM packages and high-end fabrication services gave us access to enclosures that were more than black plastic boxes with …read more
Continue reading Acrylic Mold Makes for Professional-Looking Silicone Keyboards