[Julia and Mason] have been perfecting their microwave-based lost PLA casting technique over at Hackaday.io. As the name implies, lost PLA is similar to lost wax casting techniques. We’ve covered lost ...

Casting is a process that can be quite demanding for the first timer, but highly rewarding once the basic techniques are mastered. It then becomes possible to quickly and reliably produce metal parts ...

One of the biomass polymers, poly(lactic acid) (PLA), has attracted much attention as an alternative for petroleum-based polymers. 1 It is well known that PLA has two ...