How ASML became Europe’s most valuable tech firm

From the outside it looks like an ordinary corporate building, lots of glass and steel, but this factory in the south of the Netherlands belongs to ASML, and the machines made there are anything but ordinary.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64514573

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Gosh #microfluidics and #photolithography are fun. Spent some time tonight making a master mold and going over procedures in our #cleanroom at the college. So much fun! My PhD leverages these skills to enable the automation of experiments.

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3D Printing Gets Small in a Big Way

https://hackaday.com/2022/10/26/3d-printing-gets-small-in-a-big-way/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPt_DcWAvw&t=2s
Cool demonstration of a #photolithography technique. I think I first heard about photolithography in high school when some National Instruments guy casually described it during a tour, but I don't think I've had as clear of a picture for the process as I do after this video.