Sharing some of the funniest failure we’ve managed to achieve so far ![]()
Trying to get bubbles out of ballistic gel in an early prototype.
OK, let’s stick it in the oven at ~240 degrees F. That should work.
Yes that is a hard drive magnet + very large hemostat contraption holding the spine print in place. We all have to start somewhere. ![]()
Drumroll…
Ohh…
The result was a little… Sci-Fi?
Moral of the story. Do not stick PLA plastic in an oven and what you think is going to be a heat sink actually does the opposite in a hot enclosed space.



