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Necroprinting – Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing

29 points| indy | 3 months ago |tomshardware.com

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georgefrowny|3 months ago

That's pretty cool. Must be a fiddly job to anchor it into the rest of the system.

> Moreover, current commercial tips that fit this spec are made of either non-biodegradable plastic or metal.

I'm not sure saving at most the few micrograms (the entire mosquito is only a handful of milligrams) of plastic here is really a major factor. Probably there are orders of magnitude more plastic in the tape on the box that they would ship it in.

Also not very clear how it can be 100% finer than current tips!

vrighter|3 months ago

Maybe it's just the inside diameter that got 100% smaller. So there actually is a physical object that can exist. Which is about a cat hair.

epaga|3 months ago

> not very clear how it can be 100% finer than current tips!

By being vaporware