Previously I wrote about my research into various carbon composites and how I was designing a mold to try my hand at "forging" carbon fiber. So here is my first attempt at it, and the results were better than expected. *** Find out about the latest experiment here *** I decided to go ahead and make a decent molding platform that I could test with and reuse for future projects. The housing is three steel plates burned out on a plasma table, with a removable 3D printed mold sha

Lately I've been doing some research and prototyping with carbon fiber. Everyone loves carbon fiber for one reason or another, and I am no exception. I'm definitely no expert on composites, but I've worked with custom carbon fiber molding in the past, though it was on a scale 100 times larger than the scale of the parts I'm concepting for BRACE. Small scale carbon fiber is a lot harder than large scale. Well, not to say that it's too much harder, you just need more specialize