The Vaquform’s digital smarts come in the form of a IR probe for monitoring the temperature of the plastic and preset settings for different material thicknesses and types, making it relatively easy ...

What do you do when you find some friends have bought a vacuum forming machine? Make novelty chocolates and ice cubes, of course! This was my response when I had the opportunity to play with a ...

Industrial designer John Truman Tan has been described as a “lifelong maker and tinkerer.” And rightly so. Well, John is one guy I know who willfully, willingly, uncoerced by parents took up ...

What do you do when you find some friends have bought a vacuum forming machine? Make novelty chocolates and ice cubes, of course! This was my response when I had the opportunity to play with a ...

Marty Hankins removes a sheet of molded plastic from the Vaquform machine as, from left, Joshua Paul, Ruth Wilson and Jean Pyzik ook on during a vacuum forming class at Exploration Commons in ...

If you’re a craftsman, there is a good chance you have a 3D printer and CNC milling machine or router, but do you have a vacuum former? For those unfamiliar with it, vacuum forming is a process in ...

Makers and small businesses looking for an affordable way to manufacture vacuum formed products in small production runs may be interested in a new desktop vacuum forming machine which has been ...

The Vaquform desktop vacuum former has stormed past it’s Kickstarter goal, and for those that were lucky enough to pledge early, they should receive their vacuum former sometime in October 2017. If ...