Just like any plastic, Styrofoam and ... Kiriboard is cut into lattice-like shapes so that it can bend to fill the space between an item and the wall of its box. The cuts give the cardboard ...

There’s another option: corrugated plastic ... 3D printers, enclosure design is still a problem that isn’t entirely solved. “Soft” enclosure options like photo tents or fabric grow boxes ...

The holy grail of desktop 3D printers – aside from manufacturing full color objects in any shape imaginable – is turning tiny plastic pellets into a plastic filament. Many projects have ...

To do this, the robot creates a small plastic structure with ... filling dozens of boxes with more than 25,000 3D-printed structures. Why so many shapes? There are countless uses for something ...

The rise of 3D printing has reshaped the landscape of manufacturing ... It’s understanding how to turn plastic into practical shapes through the utilization of extrusion machines, and mastering ...

These sheets of plastic ... shape-changing behaviour paves a new way for fabricating geometrically complex multifunctional devices.' In the summer of 2014, the art of folding paper to create 3D ...

Now scientists at MIT have found a way to 3D print objects that can change shape almost instantaneously ... with the new technology, which uses plastic “3D ink” infused with tiny iron ...

Three teenagers in New York designed a cardboard, called Kiriboard, to replace plastic ... like shapes so that it can bend to fill the space between an item and the wall of its box.