Making Soft Silicone Lenses at Home

Do you want to make molds for soft silicone lenses with just a basic CNC mill at home? Or do you need acrylic lenses made with just a few basic materials?

More info can be found in the blog post: https://volzo.de/posts/flexiblelenses

Videos I recommended:

Making Lenses with a CNC Router Part 1 by Brauns CNC:
   • Making Lenses with a CNC Router Part 1  

Optical finish for acrylic -- vapor polishing and other techniques by Applied Science:
   • Optical finish for acrylic -- vapor p...  

Making DIY Lenses with Epoxy by Breaking Taps:
   • Make Your Own Optical Lenses  

Improve your polishing with 3D printing by Adam the machinist:
   • Improve your polishing with 3D printing  

Polishing a Small Spherical Mirror Surface on a Glass Blank by Huygens Optics:
   • Polishing a Small Spherical Mirror Su...  

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Timeline:

00:00 Introduction
03:52 Video recommendations
04:19 Mold materials
05:21 Toolpaths
06:17 Endmills
07:49 Polishing and grinding
13:05 Silicone
17:40 Problems
18:35 Outro

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