RepRap: Blog

The STL files for the XY Table V0.04 fixes are now up:

https://www.printables.com/model/1286343-reprapmicron-v004-micron-accurate-3d-printer

The elephant? Well, Marusa Mur et al of the J. Stefan Institute in Slovenia have 3D printed a 10 micron elephant - inside a living cell. Image below from their paper on Arxiv. 

But there's serious work involved too. For a start they've managed to put a blob of printer resin inside a cell without killing it (very often, anyway). They're printing barcode tracking tags so that cells can be individually tracked, and lasing cavities whose properties can potentially change in their environment allowing the innards of cells to be probed.

RepRapMicron isn't that accurate - yet - but hopefully will be a more accessible platform than the two-photon laser system that Mur is using. I did a bit of work with Robert A. Freitas on a book called Nanomedicine late last century (Gods I feel old suddenly) about the advanced implications of that kind of technology which you can read online here.