Even if they don’t have one themselves, we’d wager the average Hackaday reader is at least vaguely aware of how a vacuum former works on a fundamental level. You heat up a plastic sheet until it’s ...

Surface conductors on vacuum formed parts appear in many hacks, from cosplay armor to 3D touch pads and smart objects. But making them has always been painful. Either they had to be hand painted after ...

Customers of Lindar Corp., a plastics thermoformer in Minnesota, often want functional prototypes of food containers to test and evaluate. And they want them in only a couple of days. This has meant ...

Marty Hankins removes a sheet of molded plastic from the Vaquform machine as, from left, Joshua Paul, Ruth Wilson and Jean Pyzik ook on during a vacuum forming class at Exploration Commons in ...