Physical making
Paper, Cardboard & Foamcore
- Cardboard Fundamentals (Adafruit)
- Joep Frens' guide to modelling with cardboard
- Paper Prototyping - Introduction for practitioners on paper prototyping
- Working with Cardboard (Make)
- Eric Strebel has a series of videos on prototyping with foamcore and other physical materials
Article:
Acrylic and plastics
- Acrylic Cheat Sheet: How to cut, glue, bend and more
- Making an acrylic box (5 minute video)
Skillbuilder: Seven Tips for Working with Acrylic (3.5 minute video)
TAP Plastics - A range of tutorials on working with plastics and resin
Wood
Casting
- Making silicon molds (MakerBot)
- Cold casting resin
Assorted guides
- 507 Mechanical Movements - Diagrams and animations of different forms of mechanical movement
- Hot glue guns - tips for working with (Make)
- Working with Foam (Make)
- ITP's physical computing course has videos on general protoyping methods and tips
- Shape making from kids 3D foam
- Eric Strebel has a series of videos on prototyping with foamcore and other physical materials
Where to buy
- SPOK - Skåne-region material producers and experts.
- SFXC - Special effect pigments and paints (thermochromatic, hydrochromic, glowing, liquid crystal etc)
Craft supplies
Plastics for laser cutting
- Evonik - Sells a range of Plexiglas plastics
- Perspex - Sells a range of Perspex plastics
- Vink - Local distributor of Perspex plastics (SE)
- Interglas - Sells cheap small-sized samples (DK)
- Plastbutikken (DK)