If you have a 3D printer in your workshop, you probably fret more about how to get bigger objects out of it. However, the University of Amsterdam has a new technique that allows for fast large-scale printing with sub-micron resolution. The technique is a hybrid of photolithography and stereolithography.
One of the problems with printing with fine detail is that print times become very long. However, the new technique claims to have “acceptable production time.” Apparently, bioprinting applications are very much of interest to the technology’s first licensee. There is talk of printing, for example, a kidney scaffold in several hours or a full-sized heart scaffold in less than a day.
Another example application is the production of a chromatography instrument with 200 micron channels and 20 micron restrictions. This requires a printer capable of very fine detail. There are also applications in semiconductors and mechanical metamaterials. Of course, we always take note of photolithography processes because we use them to make PC boards and even integrated circuits. A desktop printer that could do photolithography might open up new ideas for producing electronic circuitry.
If you want to play with photolithography today, [Ben Krasnow] has some advice. Of course, there are several ways to produce PC boards, even with a garden-variety 3D printer.
Today I learnt that Lattice is not a name (of a manufactor), but a partially ordered set with unique least upper bounds and greatest lower bounds. Thanks again Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_(order) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_Semiconductor
Looking at the picture i was wondering if Lattice wants to 3D print their FPGA and thought “that can’t work?!”…
What are you two blathering on about?
Manufactor of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAL22V10
I want a bacon, Lattice and tomato sandwich now.
confused because they capitalized the word Lattice making it a proper noun…ie the FPGA company Lattice instead of a lattice structure.
Official rule is to capitalize the first wotd of a sentence where that is possible. 10 cant be capitalized, um cant. So lattice it is. It is (very) debatable wether 10 um lattice should be considered a sentence….
Anyway thats what i learned in primary school in 1976. I recognize almost nobody follos that rule correctly.
Interesting. I don’t ever remember being told to delay the capitalization if the first character of the sentence isn’t viable to a later one.
In this case, the capitalization didn’t strike me odd, as its a title.