If anyone knows what "trapunto" embroidery is, I've hit upon the latex-plus air analog. This technique would be useful for creating texture on stretched latex forms for plaster. You betcha. It will also work to evacuate the space between membranes, too.

If anyone knows what "trapunto" embroidery is, I've hit upon the latex-plus air analog. This technique would be useful for creating texture on stretched latex forms for plaster. You betcha. It will also work to evacuate the space between membranes, too.

Getting more ginormous by the day. Next up, making the barrel and other attachments for the front end.

This is a stool I've been working on the last few weeks. My goal is to assemble a stool together using thermoforming, and through this, eliminate the need for fasteners. By using what would normally be considered "consequences" of vacuum-forming, the undercuts and trapping of wood add to it's structure.

Housing in Vienna, exhibition at the Architecture Biennale Venice. Palazzo Ca´Tron. Exhibition design by SPAN, Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger

Local inventor John Colborn has been frequenting the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab while developing a portable, rechargeable diving system that provides air to divers "on demand" from an air pump at the water's surface - similar to a #SNUBA or hookah system, but much smaller and more portable. John is now shepherding his invention through the patent process, and the basic skills and tools used to create the device were introduced to him here in the Innovation Lab: 3D printing, laser cutting, vacuum forming, Arduino microcontrollers and more.

John recently tested his system and was able to stay underwater for a continuous 2 hours on a single battery charge - plenty of time to clean his backyard pool a few times and then some.

Photo Credit: John Colborn

Buy me that 1999 Escalade. I will sit and fan myself on this bench.

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In downtown Follansbee, West Virginia, on July 8th, 2020, outside Mountaineer Auto Mart on the west side of Main Street (West Virginia Route 2), north of Ohio Street.

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Housing in Vienna, exhibition at the Architecture Biennale Venice. Palazzo Ca´Tron. Exhibition design by SPAN, Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

This is a stool I've been working on the last few weeks. My goal is to assemble a stool together using thermoforming, and through this, eliminate the need for fasteners. By using what would normally be considered "consequences" of vacuum-forming, the undercuts and trapping of wood add to it's structure.

Dome sculpt and vac forming setup for the Protomorph (Xenomorph) from Alien: Covenant - 1:18 scale.

Using a test cast from earlier today, I used Aves FIXIT sculpt and built up the dome for the beast. Sculpted the dome, allowed the FIXIT to sure and reduced the dome all over so I can achieve the correct proportional build of the clear PETG dome the original sculpt represented.

Smoothed and polished the sculpt of the dome, reduced the details below it and built up base to stabilize the piece for vac forming. I'll now be able to use this piece over and over again to create the clear domes....although I may need to make adjustments once some test domes are made...tomorrow. #alien #aliens #covenant #sculpture #dome #vacuumforming #PETG #avesstudio #FIXITsculpt #protomorph #xenomorph

Dome sculpt and vac forming setup for the Protomorph (Xenomorph) from Alien: Covenant - 1:18 scale.

Using a test cast from earlier today, I used Aves FIXIT sculpt and built up the dome for the beast. Sculpted the dome, allowed the FIXIT to sure and reduced the dome all over so I can achieve the correct proportional build of the clear PETG dome the original sculpt represented.

Smoothed and polished the sculpt of the dome, reduced the details below it and built up base to stabilize the piece for vac forming. I'll now be able to use this piece over and over again to create the clear domes....although I may need to make adjustments once some test domes are made...tomorrow. #alien #aliens #covenant #sculpture #dome #vacuumforming #PETG #avesstudio #FIXITsculpt #protomorph #xenomorph

Dome sculpt and vac forming setup for the Protomorph (Xenomorph) from Alien: Covenant - 1:18 scale.

Using a test cast from earlier today, I used Aves FIXIT sculpt and built up the dome for the beast. Sculpted the dome, allowed the FIXIT to sure and reduced the dome all over so I can achieve the correct proportional build of the clear PETG dome the original sculpt represented.

Smoothed and polished the sculpt of the dome, reduced the details below it and built up base to stabilize the piece for vac forming. I'll now be able to use this piece over and over again to create the clear domes....although I may need to make adjustments once some test domes are made...tomorrow. #alien #aliens #covenant #sculpture #dome #vacuumforming #PETG #avesstudio #FIXITsculpt #protomorph #xenomorph

The repackaging of a $5 Utility tool to help establish perceived value and brand presence, while honing student designers' skills as copywriters. From the Communication Design Students of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Visit miad.edu.

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

This is the 4th pull on a new thermoformer. Knowing that that undercuts and voids would propose a problem, the test was used to gauge the heating elements and the vacuum in relation to a specific material cross-section, against a rather activated form.

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

Finished plastic sheet that has been cut out and trimmed to fit my mask.

Please check out my blog, Dracula is Still a Threat, and my Gallery.

vacuumformed art deco areo coupe 1/24 scale with gullwing doors

Finished plastic sheet that has been formed over my mold. There was some bubbling but I will see how it looks after I tint it.

Please check out my blog, Dracula is Still a Threat, and my Gallery.

Final Installation for Heather Roberge's Between the Sheets Tech Seminar @ UCLA

My mold that the plastic is formed over, it's placed on a board with a shop vace to suck the air out.

Please check out my blog, Dracula is Still a Threat, and my Gallery.

Using our DIY vacuum-forming rig, participants were able to make custom mold shapes using thermo-formed plastic.

Final Installation for Heather Roberge's Between the Sheets Tech Seminar @ UCLA

Generations of Findlay-area residents nostalgiacally remember the shop's radio jingle:

♫ Ar-ma-tures for *all* your needs

At Fin-lay Ar-ma-ture ♫

I think the thing mounted in the doorway is: an armature.

"Finlay" is a misspelling of "Findlay."

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In Findlay, Ohio, on April 29th, 2018, on the north side of West High Street between North Cory Street and North Main Street. The building is from 1940.

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