bioplastic - Make environmentally friendly plastic in your own home

Make environmentally friendly plastic in your own home

Making plastics in your home is fun, but also an important development in creating products that we can all edit, build and create together

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anna is now a member of bioplastic Jan 4, 2011

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Marcus Silva commented on Christopher Doering's photo

Thanks man, Its a definite interesting take on application. I'm going to try it with cloth

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Potato Eater replied to Jay Cousins's discussion 'Bioplastics challenges'

The first thing one can try is to reduce the amount of water in the recipe. The shrinkage is due to the loss of water as it dries. I noticed most of the recipes on this site have quite a lot of water. I have managed to make some with 1 part starch…

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Help build the revolution

We have a dream. A dream where everyone can manufacture, repair, create and build products in their own home. Where everybody has control over the design, and the ability to personalise the products they build.

We believe that these products should be environmentally friendly, biodegradable and sustainable and accessible in every meaning of the word.

Many people are working on pieces of this puzzle, from makerbots, to repraps, to other forms of homebrew manufacture.

Here we focus on the material. We would like you to help us, and to have fun doing so.

This is a platform for sharing outcomes, challenges and ideas related to the use and manufacture of bioplastic.

Feel free to contribute and join the fun.

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Bioplastics challenges 5 Replies

What are the biggest challenges surrounding homebrew bioplastics and how do we address them?Continue

Started by Jay Cousins. Last reply by Potato Eater Aug 6, 2010.

Bioplastics recipes 8 Replies

First let's set some formatting to make it easy for all of us to read and establish some common ground.Happy to take other suggestions on structure, but it might help some of you to have something to…Continue

Tags: bioplastic, recipes

Started by Jay Cousins. Last reply by Jay Cousins Mar 31, 2010.

Bioplastics processes 4 Replies

Here we cover different processes for curing (AKA drying) bioplastic, extrusion, sheet creation, texture, molding and of course the holy grail 3D extrusion prototyping.

Started by Jay Cousins. Last reply by Jay Cousins Mar 4, 2010.