Matt Bilsky, CEO + Founder, FLX Solutions, Inc. Prototyping the Impossible to Build the Smallest and Strongest Robots in the World At this point in consumer 3D printing you can get quite good prints for less than $300. But this hasn’t always been the case. I used to hate 3D printing. My first experience was in undergrad with an industrial grade printer that never worked. By grad school, the lab I managed had a first generation consumer 3D printer whose steppers sang at the top of their lungs while poorly printing parts mere feet from my desk. Suffice it to say, it collected a lot of dust. Fast forward to 2018. I bought my first modern hobbyist printer for $800 and it changed my life. It was silent and printed with more than sufficient tolerance for prototyping robots (and everything else). It just worked. Period. At the time, I was finishing up as a professor at Lehigh University furthering the development of the snake-like robot I invented as my doctoral work. It was created for driving through walls to run wires without a mess. And was going to be a metal monster costing at least $15K. Demand for higher resolution and high-precision parts is driving the evolution of additive manufacturing. The latest 3D printer design from Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) uses a new approach called Projection Micro Stereolithography (PµSL), which is capable of printing polymer parts with 2µm resolution — unprecedented metrics in 3D printing. PµSL enables mold-free, ultra-high-resolution, fast prototyping, and end-part capability not possible before. Answer a few questions about your resolution requirements, build volume, and application ‚ and our selection tool will match you to the right microArch system.