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You build a Z axis with angstrom steps?

...I cannot begin to imagine what's involved in vibration control.




Not even close. We're building an "easy" machine, which can do about 1 micrometer precision. 1 km from where I work, there's ASML, the world's de-facto monopolist in high-end lithography. Most chips in your phone come from their machines. They're going towards the angstrom pretty fast, but they also need 500x the amount of engineers (and a frighteningly enormous pile of legacy code) to do that.





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