{"id":873,"date":"2011-06-06T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/873-the-worlds-smallest-3d-printer.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:10:47","slug":"the-worlds-smallest-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/the-worlds-smallest-3d-printer","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Smallest 3D Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- s9ymdb:6711 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" style=\"border: 0px none; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/printer-vienna-640px1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>High-quality 3D printing at home has just come one step closer. Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria have presented the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuwien.ac.at\/en\/news\/news_detail\/article\/7009\/\" target=\"_blank\">smallest 3D printer to date<\/a>. At the size of a carton of milk and weighs 1.5 kilograms, it currently costs around &euro;1,200 but the makers expect the price to drop quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The printer uses <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stereolithography\" target=\"_blank\">stereolithography<\/a>: it hardens layers of synthetic resin by an intense beam of light of only .05mm wide. 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