Independent 3D printing hobby pioneer, RepRap, has scaled its operations down to the microscopic level of accuracy, known as micron 3D printing.
Using a unique 3D printed microscope with flexures - akin to the OpenFlecture microscope - Vik Olliver, behind the RepRap blog, has managed to print a 300 µm triangular pattern in resin.
This record-breaking achievement suggests a host of potential applications, such as printing Circuitry from conductive resins, and could even provide a simpler way of printing photoresist onto wafers compared to lithography.
Olliver has published all related files on his GitHub page for any interested parties to create their own micron 3D printer, or to simply explore the work to date.
