Have you ever played with Rose’s metal? It’s a fusible alloy of bismuth, lead, and tin with a low melting point of around 100 °C. Historically, it’s been used as a solder for cast iron railings and ...

Chris Borge] has made (and revised) many of his own tools using a combination of 3D printing and common hardware, and recently decided to try metal casting. Having created his own tapping arm, he ...

Using a toolpath strategy for weight reduction, two near-net shape dies were manufactured using a gas metal arc welding additive manufacturing process at the Lincoln Electric Additive Solutions ...

Remember Easy Bake Ovens? You’d mix up some colored powder and water until a dough or batter formed, put it in a mold, pop it in the oven and before you knew it – ding! A disgusting treat. Foundry Lab ...

Native American artisans create molds from cuttlebone and tufa stone to cast metal jewelry. Anthony Lovato works with tufa stone molds to create jewelry at his studio in Santo Domingo Pueblo, ...

Most of the plastic objects we see are created using injection molding, but designing such molds is a difficult task, usually requiring experts. Now, computer scientists from the Institute of Science ...