Alec Eats His Face! | Let's Make | Vacuum Forming With the Mayku FormBox
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- Nothing is more satisfying than really sinking your teeth into a fun maker project. Alec gives us some questionable foodie projects that he makes with the help of 3D scanning, 3D printing, Jell-O, chocolate, and the Mayku FormBox Desktop Vacuum Former! Check it out!
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What would you make using the Mayku FormBox?
hamburger
I've operated huge versions of these. We use to use cool air fans after forming. The cooling helps the form pop out. If you get tiny bubbles appear in the formed part, that means there's moisture trapped in the plastic. Place in a very low heat convection oven for few hours or overnight to dry the sheets before forming.
Watching you try and temper that chocolate was brutal haha
Is that what I was eating in the breakroom? I thought they were gummy Alec Trebeks
Thanks, what program did you use to 3d print the copy of your face?
Nice job, I tried to make candy once. I'm sticking to non-food stuff. :)
Food stuff is fun, but there's this whole sanitation thing you have to worry about. What sort of non-food stuff do you like working with? - Alec
suggestion, in your model have a small hole all the way through from back to nostril so the vacuum has a way to pull at that bend point
In the article I wrote about thermoforming, I go over that detail and other things to improve your pulls when using the Mayku Formbox. In this case, it's less the material needing to be pulled more, and that there's too much material for the space it needs to fit in. - Alec
Cool looking stuff! You should have let me know, and I could have sent you my gummy bear model to use for the gummy ones! 😂
I saw this machine on amazon, but i think it a little small, so I bought another white and bigger one
if you do an oil bath, no steam
quality vid man gj
Thanks! These types of videos are a new thing but they're a lot of fun to make. Is there another idea you'd like to see in this series? - Alec
@@MatterHackers Not sure but I'll definitely let you know if I come up with one.
@@MatterHackers I take that back this might be something that isn't big enough for a whole vid but you could make the little astronaut guy out of chocolate.
What about using a heat gun while it's vacuuming to help pull the webbing out?
On something that small, it wouldn't help too much. Webbing comes from there being too much material so it folds over itself, like how a tailor will remove material in a dress or a suit to make it fit better on a person instead of bunching up around their joints. We can't really do that with plastic, so the best shot would be to keep it less droopy and therefore it needs to stretch to cover it more. Great idea though, and it does help with bigger projects that don't get enough heat before the vacuum catches it. - Alec
I wonder if it would be useful for making custom cases for components.. Print a buck. Vac form the shape and bam the item you place in the case will have a perfect home and not. Bounce around.. And if it's not sensitive save the print step and just vac the item!
You'd basically be making something just like the 3D Phil figure. If you're thinking of something like a circuitboard there may be too many details of differing heights or the pins might poke through the plastic. But something like a phone case isn't a bad idea! I may have to try that. - Alec
@@MatterHackers or even a transportation case for like drone parts or something where it doesn't need soft padding but instead locked in place
Okay, so sticking your phone in it doesn't work out too great. The phone was fine, but the plastic didn't conform around it enough to hold on. It's more of a specifically shaped dish than a case. - Alec
Great idea - what we've found useful is making a slightly larger 3D printed version of what you are trying to make a case for - this way you can tweak it to make whatever you are putting in the case, extremely snug. Sort of like what Playdud did with packing on this guy: www.mayku.me/article/playdude-creates-professional-blister-packaging-with-the-formbox
Your hat is missing - that’s what’s different :)
Can you pour resin into a vacuum form mold to make parts (instead of a messy silicon mold) ? that would be a cool video.
depends on materials of the resin and the plastic mold I will look into it some more.
@@fusionmakeseverything7890 cool looking forward to hearing more.. i would love to see something hard like polyurethane
@@MicheleHjorleifsson We've tried it, but there's a couple things about it we didn't consider and had problems with: mold release is key and resin is exothermic. The resin we poured in wouldn't come out, even if we tried breaking the mold; it was just way too stuck. In other cases, I've had resin with a quick set time heat up the tupperware it was in and melt it to the plastic sheet I had on the table. Use mold release and a resin that takes a long time to cure and you should be better off than we were. What did you want to make? - Alec
@@MatterHackers ocassionally when finishing up a prototype for a client they want 5-10 or 20 more to hand to staff for further comment / testing etc... takes forever to 3d print that many so was thinking mold would help.
Ya know who would know which one to use is punished props... let me ask them.
$699 what a joke.
But... you cut before eating! Totally misleading title ;)
There's snippets of me eating here and there. Would you want an uncut video of me silently eating chocolate? - Alec
@@MatterHackers well played. But you know some people would be into that.
first comment... i didn't win the pewdiepie computer ;-;