{"id":191963,"date":"2024-06-27T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/tiny-titan-mits-revolutionary-coin-sized-3d-printer-fits-in-your-pocket"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:25:58","slug":"tiny-titan-mits-revolutionary-coin-sized-3d-printer-fits-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/tiny-titan-mits-revolutionary-coin-sized-3d-printer-fits-in-your-pocket","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Titan: MIT\u2019s Revolutionary Coin-Sized 3D Printer Fits in Your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-titan-mits-revolutionary-coin-sized-3d-printer-fits-in-your-pocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Researchers from MIT and the University of Texas have developed a prototype for a handheld, chip-based 3D printer using a photonic chip that emits beams of light to cure resin into solid objects. This innovative technology could revolutionize the production of customized, low-cost objects on-the-go and has potential applications in medical and engineering fields.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Portable 3D Printing Technology<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a portable 3D printer you could hold in the palm of your hand. The tiny device could enable a user to rapidly create customized, low-cost objects on the go, like a fastener to repair a wobbly bicycle wheel or a component for a critical medical operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from MIT and the University of Texas have developed a prototype for a handheld, chip-based 3D printer using a photonic chip that emits beams of light to cure resin into solid objects. This innovative technology could revolutionize the production of customized, low-cost objects on-the-go and has potential applications in medical and engineering fields. Portable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}