{"id":374,"date":"2010-02-15T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/374-cooking-molding-bioplastics-at-home-recipes-results-tips.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:54:23","slug":"cooking-molding-bioplastics-at-home-recipes-results-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/cooking-molding-bioplastics-at-home-recipes-results-tips","title":{"rendered":"Cooking &#038; molding bioplastics at home: recipes, results &#038; tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:945 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"399\" width=\"600\" style=\"border: 0px none; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; \" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/home_made_bioplastic.JPG282.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Inspired by<a href=\"\/shops\/mendelheit\"> Mendel Heit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lasern\">Martin Bauer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/jaycousins.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/08\/bioplastics-the-quest-for-open-source-material-production\/\">Jay Cousins<\/a> we&#8217;ve been doing a lot of playing around with bioplastics. Here you can see the original post with a video that shows you how <a href=\"\/blog\/archives\/371-laser-cutting-bioplastics.html\">they made bioplastic<\/a>. Additionally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5M_eDLyfzp8\">this video<\/a> is quite helpful. <\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:957 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"399\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/home_made_bioplastic.JPG922.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px none; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; \"><\/p>\n<p>So why have I been spending every minute of my free time cooking bioplastic? Basically the idea is: make a biodegradable plastic in your own home. This will potentially be of big benefit for desktop 3D printing, personal production and also in reducing fossil fuel consumption and one&#8217;s carbon footprint. Make a material with easily obtainable biological products that you can in turn use to make lots of things. If we&#8217;re dreaming we can also then perhaps make a material that enables you the consumer to recycle the consumer products you make in your own home at home. I tried to test and replicate a number of recipes and also show you what results you can achieve by cooking bioplastics in the home, right now. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Theoretically home made bioplastics could be of great benefit to hobbyists and<br \/>\nhardware hackers. Such a material might actually also make a<br \/>\nfundamental impact on how certain people consumer things, make things,<br \/>\nbuy things and live their lives (Makers and Green people). It might<br \/>\nadditionally have profound effects beyond this limited group (bleeding<br \/>\nedge technology people, designers). Via this group and with significant<br \/>\nimprovements it could go much wider (ie used by people drawn to<br \/>\ncustomization such as millennials). 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