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RE: plastic forming

Can you modify the process to push the plastic INTO an object... put your
object INSIDE the box and reverse the air flow so that the plastic is pushed
into a negative image?  This would give you the detailed texture on the
outside of you plastic.

-----Original Message-----
From: Walterio Mayol-cuevas
Subject: Re: plastic forming

You can build your own vacuformer (as I did).

  As an example have a look at:
http://home.flash.net/~jimbob1/art09.htm
Or at my own resource's home-page:
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~wmayol/resources/nacipobre/index.html

  The plastic material is styrene which you can find in your local hoby
store,
it cost about 1pound per slice (1.5USD).

   Vacuforming is certainly useful for interface prototyping, e.g. 
the patent-pending WearClam:
   www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~wmayol/WeraClam

Please NOTE: the wearclam was manufactured in a professional vacuformer at
my
undergraduate university UNAM.

Hope it helps,

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 Walterio W. Mayol-Cuevas                    
 P.R.S, Robotics Research Group - Active Vision Lab.
 University of Oxford - Department of Eng. Sci. 
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