X-Wing Starfighters
Printing the Falcon took 50 minutes, plus an extra 10 minutes in a solvent bath to remove unpolymerized resin. Paliard printed the Falcon on his first try, and noted that it was 400,000 times smaller than the original. Han Solo, the Falcon’s infamous pilot, would need to be 5 microns tall, or roughly the size of a bacterium, to fit into this ship.
“With this realization, we show that it is possible to obtain extremely precise and complex microparts with our technology,” Paliard told Gizmodo via email. “By zooming in the cockpit, it is even possible to distinguish the seats on which Han Solo and Chewbacca sit!”
