The build relies on a pair of beefy 3hp motors to drive the screw-based injection system ... A Raspberry Pi handles the operation of the machine, and is configured with a custom Python program ...
[Kurt Schaefer] was watching YouTube videos of people making molds for injection molding purposes using what he considered to be the toy 3018 CNC machines, and looking at the results, decided he ...
During a typical cycle, the plastics pellets are melted in an injection unit and then the molten polymer is forced into a mold which shapes and cools the material. When the part is solid, it is ...
Injection molding: a lot harder than you'd think! I picked up a benchtop injection molding machine to play with, and thought a "simple" double convex singlet lens would be a good first project.