Rapid prototyping tools are sometimes the difference between a project getting off the ground and one that stays strictly on paper. A lightweight, easy-to-form material is often all that’s needed to ...

Makers and hobbyists interested in cutting polystyrene sheets into intricate shapes, may be interested in a new desktop cutting machine named the PolyShaper Azul. Computer-controlled polystyrene ...

“Every block of expanded polystyrene foam has a statue inside it and it is the task of the dual-arm hot wire-wielding robot to discover it.” — [Michelangelo], probably. But hot-wire cutters can’t do ...