Renshape

Renshape - a material for making vacuum forming pattern

https://www.freemansupply.com/products/machinable-media/renshape-modeling-and-styling-boards

Gator Board - a stronger alternative for foam board

Gator Board - a stronger alternative for foam board

http://www.cheapjoes.com/gatorfoam-board.html

Arylic color and finish

Arylic color and finish
7508 regular white
7328 translucent
3015 whitest white

CNC bits

Normally 1/8" bit or 1/16" is used for CNC routing for display components.

Cold Soba Noodle

After sampling soba noodle in many places, including in Japan and even at 7-11 in Taiwan (yes, cold soba is available at 7-11 in Asia), I cam up with my own version of cold soba. I am sharing it with you here:

Materials:

a pack of soba noodle

sugar

vinegar

soy sauce

sesame oil

Furikake dried fish flakes with seaweed and sesame

Kodaya Sesame Oil I used

Tool:

medium pot

colander

1. Heat water in a pot and bring it to broiling.

2. Drop bundles of soba into the pot. Most of soba are bundled in a package in which there usually 12 bundles. 1 1/2 bundles may be the serving size for an adult.

3. Stir it occasionally and cook it for 3 minutes. Most instructions found on the soba packaging ask for 4 minutes to cook, and my experience tells 3 minutes is just enough to cook soba and make it chewy.

4. Turn off the heat, prepare a colander and in the sink pour and drain the boiled soba in the colander.

5. Wash, stir and drain soba with cold water to make noodle firmer and chewy.

6. After water is completely drained from soba, add and mix in sugar (1/2 tea spoon), vinegar (about 1 tea spoon) and little soy sauce to your liking.

7. Then drizzle in sesame oil and mix again.

8. Wait till when it is time to serve the noodle, then drizzle Furikake on top of the noodle.

9. Add sesame, chopped green onion over the top of the noodle to make it tastier.

Options: 

I used to add shredded carrot, shredded egg crêpes and shredded cucumber to add flavors and pleasing colors to this dish.

Acrylic or ABS thickness

Nominal acrylic or ABS thickness, actual thickness
1/16", 1.5 mm (~ 0.06") + or - 10%
1/8", 3 mm (~ 0.118") + or - 10%
3/16", 4.5 mm (~ 0.177") + or - 10%
1/4", 6 mm (~ 0.236") + or - 10%
3/8", 9 mm (~ 0.354") + or - 10%
1/2", 12 mm (~ 0.472") + or - 10%

https://forum.pololu.com/t/question-about-material-thickness-of-abs-and-acrylic/1198/2 

http://www.eplastics.com/Plastic/clear_plexiglass_sheet?gclid=CNOz3o_v3tQCFR1MDQodeCECUQ

Create a 45º seamless tiling line hatch fill in Illustrator

To create a 45º seamless tiling line hatch fill inside a shape in Illustrator,

Make your Pattern artwork horizontal or vertical only. Fill an object with the Pattern. DoubleClick the Rotate tool. Deselect Object, select Pattern. Enter 45 (or any other desired angle).

If you want to save it as rotated to a particular angle for use it in other objects, drag the filled object to the Styles Palette to define a Style.

Source: http://www.justskins.com/forums/45-hatch-fill-144496.html