Vacuum forming is a handy thing to be able to do, and [3DSage] demonstrates how to do a bare-bones system that can form anything smaller than a dinner plate with little more than a 3D printed fitting ...

In this video, I remake my vacuum former project with improved design elements. Previously, I used an oven to soften plastic, ...

Even if they don’t have one themselves, we’d wager the average Hackaday reader is at least vaguely aware of how a vacuum former works on a fundamental level. You heat up a plastic sheet until it’s ...

"We're never going to get to a point where we say we've reached 'sustainability' and we're done," says Scott Trenor, technical director of the Association of Plastic Recyclers. It requires, he added, ...

Welch Fluorocarbon Inc. Dover, N.H. As many of today's medical-device manufacturers produce smaller and smaller assemblies, the space available for powerful batteries is extremely tight. In such tight ...