Saturday, March 17, 2012

3D Printer Make a Microscopic Car

Watch This 3D Printer Make a Microscopic Car:
3D printing of a microscopic race car. Image credit: TU Vienna
3D printing of a microscopic race car. Image credit: TU Vienna

3D printers let you manufacture any 3-dimensional object out of plastic. You just download the design, fire up the old 3D printer, fill the hopper with plastic, and it’ll slowly print out the object. It sounds cool, and hackers are having a great time playing around with them, but it still doesn’t compare to the scale, quality and cost of traditional manufacturing. It’s still a toy for hackers… right?
As you know, technology has a way of creeping up and then dramatically changing everything. And once you watch this mind-bending video of an ultra-high-resolution 3D printer creating a tiny race car, I think you’ll agree with me that 3D printing technology is improving in leaps and bounds.


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