You’ve probably never heard of my guest on this episode of the podcast. I’d never heard of Galen Powers either until Jeff Johnson of ChatLab in Chattanooga Tennessee introduced him to me and the three us got on Zoom to talk. Jeff had said that Galen would be reluctant to talk about himself but I […]
Making usable plastic stock from an HDPE milk jug is a lot easier than you might think
Inspired by diatoms and radiolarians, a new bottle used biomimicry as a basis for its new design.
Michal Zalewski walks us through his simple process for casting plastic parts for use in high-tolerance engineering applications.
Join me in my continuing journey to make a solid building material from plastic bags. My latest experiment has potential. How can you add to it?
Voting for Project Remake is now open. Vote the maker you think most deserves to travel to NYC for World Maker Faire, and while you’re at it enter the sweepstakes to win a Nissan LEAF all-electric car!
I Heart Robotics is running a cool series of posts testing the merits and failure modes of various types of threaded fasteners in 3D-printed plastic parts. So far they’ve hit wood screws, self-tapping plastic screws, and a special type of melt-in threaded insert for machine screws I’d never seen before. Check it out!
