High speed fabrication of race car

In the video, a race car with dimensions of 330x130x100µm3 is fabricated. The structure consists of 100 layers, each made of an average of 200 polymer lines. It is finished in 4 minutes and resembles the CAD file at a precision of ±1µm.
EN: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/en/news/news_...
DE: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/new...
Additive Manufacturing Technologies (AMT): http://amt.tuwien.ac.at/projects/two_...

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[Darkfire889]

So is that the size of a grain of sand?

[TU Wien]

It's more like the particle size of flour. 1 µm = 0,001 mm

[phlebas0]

So it print with "speed" 1 mm3/hour with resolution +/-1 um. So whot it will be producing ?

[TU Wien]

--> knowledge !

[HardstylezRising]

That's one small things for a man, one giant for science

[Jonas Malm]

What is this?! A racing car for ants?!

[dzonatanas karlsonas]

Interesting how long left to wait, till they build something working. For example micro-computer or tiny camera or something like plane.

[Darkfire889]

Now i'm impressed.

[LN1992]

so guys...

how does it feel to be living in the future?

[Meyer Mack]

This is an electron microscope? I thought they were too slow for real-time video. Lots of impressive stuff going on here.

[Terry Jackson]

Impressive.

With current machines that the public can afford having resolutions still showing layers, this technology printing at sizes that the retina can see would mean super smooth looking models.

I'd like a 1:15000 scale Millennium Falcon please to go with my other Star Wars models of small scale!

(The model would be around 1.3mm in size btw)

[sumittechkgp]

at least somebody appreciates our effort....

[sharpnova2]

you don't understand much.. of anything. do you.