Drones and Makerspaces: Best Marriage Since Chocolate and Peanut Butter
About 50 drone enthusiasts from the DC Area Drone User Group swarmed Nova Labs this past Sunday for an all day build and fly session. Here’s a montage of the event.
vacuum forming
DiResta: Vacuum Formed Mask
Vacuum forming is the perfect technique to make repetitive objects—like a Halloween mask!
How-To: Large Homemade Vacuum Forming Machine
From James Bruton of XRobots.co.uk. James’s take on the familiar vacuum forming machine uses a three-layer MDF sandwich for the vacuum box and forming table, with a vacuum cleaner hose connected at the bottom. His heating system is novel, in my experience, using an off-the-shelf quartz room heater at the bottom of an MDF “chimney” lined with aluminum foil reflectors.
