3D printing has made it incredibly easy to produce small runs of plastic parts, but getting rid of the 3D printed look can be tricky and time-consuming. When you need a smooth and polished finish, or ...

This is an instructional video showing how to make a mold from silicone rubber. Silicone rubber molds provide high accuracy and self releasing properties. They are also heat resistance, possess ...

Blue silicone ice mold filled with ice cubes on wooden cutting board - Gus Gan/Shutterstock The innovation of silicone ice molds was surely a welcome one. They're much more durable than their ...

The method of fabricating objects via silicone molding has a long tradition. Until now, however, creating molds for casting complex objects required a lot of experience and still involved manual work, ...

We tried four types of sphere molds. First, there were the round silicone molds in two parts that got pushed together to form a sphere that you fill with water through a small hole at the top. The ...