Making Soft Silicone Lenses at Home
Channel: volzo
Date: 17/10/2022

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: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2lj0KjyT8

Optical finish for acrylic -- vapor polishing and other techniques by Applied Science: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7na8kQ78vkQ

Making DIY Lenses with Epoxy by Breaking Taps: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAGivG9Koc

Improve your polishing with 3D printing by Adam the machinist: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5u5cMBNrI

Polishing a Small Spherical Mirror Surface on a Glass Blank by Huygens Optics: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-E058yElkFM

----------

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

----------

Blog: https://volzo.de
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vlztn