We’ve previously posted about Junior Veloso’s liquid resin 3D printer, which uses a DLP projector beneath a bath of resin to cure an object into its appropriate shape. Junior is reporting a huge gain in resolution from multiple improvements in the design. From our friends at Hack A Day: He’s keeping most of the juicy […]
Here’s a good way to put some of those scrap wood shavings to good use. Designer Yoav Avinoam built this coffee table and a pair of stools by casting sawdust and resin in a form.
Modofly points us to John Golden’s three-part tutorial on making resin jewelry. He pours the resin outside (covers the pieces to protect from dust and bugs) – it’s pretty nasty stuff and it’s important to have good ventilation. This technique uses a paper image as the decorative basis of the pieces – it’s neat, you […]
From Craftzine: Jodie from Ric-Rac shares her thoughts on working with resin to embed objects for use in jewelry, magnet-making, and more. Extreme crafting – resin jewellery
Solsylva has an interesting DIY rotational molding, or casting, machine used for hollow casting of resin or any other material that does not require heat activation. I like their idea of using a rotisserie motor, since I think it is fairly easy to find an unused one for free. Although, a hand crank would work […]
