Nanoscale Race Car Gets 3D Printed With a Laser 39
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to perfect 3D printing at the nanoscale. What may look like a grain of sand to the human eye could in fact be a detailed racing car model, a reproduction of a famous church, or London Bridge. The 3D printer relies on a laser beam directed by mirrors through a liquid resin onto a surface. It can print at 5 meters per second, which is a world record, and the end result is only a few hundred nanometers in size. The next hurdle: printing with bio-material so we can start making our own body parts/organs."
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Hell, all the title needs is "Apple", "Raspberry PI", and "geohashing" and it's the perfect storm of a Slashdot article.
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You forgot Bitcoins.
That's ok, so did everyone else.
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The next hurdle: printing with bio-material so we can start making our own body parts/organs.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? ... Herp a derp, dude.
For what it's worth, at least one dude at which this should be directed is the one who wrote TFA; that's where that line originally comes from.
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Well now we just need a nano track and a shrink ray to shrink you down Fantastic Voyage-style, and you can race in the Indy 500! (millimeters)
I was thinking I could use a tiny violin but it turns out you can get them off the shelf. [amazon.com]
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I bet it's going to sound crappy too, it'll be a rip off, just like this 'vehicle', and it's not really nano either - too big for that.
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The ONLY reason I clicked on this link and went to see the story is that I thought it was a real race car printed on a 3d printer with a laser. I didn't even care to see the shark that the laser was attached to. /. tricked me at looking into TFA and I find it abhorrent, absolutely unacceptable behaviour on the part of /. - tricking people to click on TFA link.
Oh, it's not a real car, did I mention that?
Nano car. Crap.
Though you more likely meant:
This product is not yet being sold to raise money for ron paul, therefore it is evil and abhorrent. I must hate it even though it has done nothing bad to me. All hail lord ron paul.
Perhaps you accidentally swallowed a small nano model of something when you were trying to drink more kool-aid? That might explain why you forgot to pledge eternal unquestioning allegiance to your lord and savior in your post.
Here's your car analogy (Score:4, Funny)
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It's like they made a little car!
Send in the Nano-Clowns
Aw (Score:2)
Not really nanoscale (Score:5, Insightful)
small is not nano, regardless of how much SEO you're after
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The only legitimate question remains, and it's this:
Dude, where is my car?!
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I did some 3D modeling work for these guys back in 2009 for an artist who was using their process to fabricate a very, very small installation.
For one of our tests, we printed a Statue of Liberty 90 naometers tall and 23 naometers wide. They used an electron microscope to document it.
Nanoscale enough for me.
Can We Take Back Nano? (Score:4, Informative)
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Now just imagine... (Score:1)
.. if the printer prints a tiny nanoscale printer!
WHO IS LAUGHING NOW, FABRIC OF THE UNIVERSE?
Why a car? (Score:5, Funny)
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I was confused by this as well.
The printer isn’t slow, either. In just 4 minutes it can print 100 layers consisting of 200 lines per layer. That translates into five meters of polymer printed in one second, which is actually a world record.
So 20,000 lines in 240 seconds comes out to 83.3 lines/sec, making each line 60 mm wide? Either I'm misunderstanding (always a strong possibility) or there's a typo there somewhere.
Electronics printing (Score:1)
Grrr.. (Score:2)
reproduction of a famous church, or London Bridge.
It's TOWER BRIDGE. ffs. You can tell by the, um, towers.
How about we start referring to your landmarks as the Statue of Eiffel, or The Silver Gate Bridge, or the Quite Big Canyon?
-Jar
I wonder if this can be scaled up (Score:2)
Current 3D printers have a resolution limit on the order of 0.2 mm. If this can be improved by even one order of magnitude, you're getting to the point where objects look perfect to the naked eye.