{"id":30170,"date":"2016-09-14T13:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/microfabricas-tiny-revolution"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:15:51","slug":"microfabricas-tiny-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/microfabricas-tiny-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Microfabrica\u2019s Tiny Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microfabricas-tiny-revolution.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m amazed no one has done this before, and there\u2019s only one company doing it now. <a href=\"http:\/\/microfabrica.com\" target=\"_blank\">Microfabrica<\/a>, based in Van Nuys, California, has perfected the technique of mass producing mechanical devices using the same electrodeposition technology used to make computer chips.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe are the <em>only<\/em> high-volume production additive manufacturing platform in the market,\u201d Microfabrica CEO Eric Miller tells me. \u201cWe use engineering grade metals to make commercially robust parts, and we\u2019re focused on another end of the spectrum from where a lot of the 3D companies are focused, and that\u2019s at the micro scale.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The resulting devices are vanishingly small, and exquisitely made. How small? The company makes biopsy forceps less than a millimeter in diameter for a medical device company and timing mechanisms (i.e., clocks) that are less than half a centimeter across for a defense contractor, as well many other very small devices and precision parts.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbelfiore.com\/2016\/09\/14\/microfabricas-tiny-revolution\/\">http:\/\/michaelbelfiore.com\/2016\/09\/14\/microfabricas-tiny-revolution\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m amazed no one has done this before, and there\u2019s only one company doing it now. Microfabrica, based in Van Nuys, California, has perfected the technique of mass producing mechanical devices using the same electrodeposition technology used to make computer chips. \u201cWe are the only high-volume production additive manufacturing platform in the market,\u201d Microfabrica CEO [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66243,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30170\/revisions\/66243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}