Dec 30, 2021; Nashville, TN, USA; Purdue Boilermakers band members play the drum before the game against the Tennessee Volunteers during the 2021 Music City Bowl at Nissan Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Christopher Hanewinckel-USA TODAY Sports
Maybe this thing will fit thru the tunnel at Notre Dame? We all know Purdue is famous for the worlds largest drum (despite what those folks in Texas have to say), but now they’ve created the worlds smallest drum. In an effort to show off new 3D printing technology Purdue has created a drum so small it’s width is about the same as a human hair. That’s not all they built though, they also made a tiny engineering fountain, the Boilermaker Special, as well as a tiny unfinished block P statue.
You may be saying “this is neat, but what do you really use it for? Well, as Purdue professor David Cappelleri explains it, microrobots that can go into your body…
“Microrobots can go places that you just can’t get to with larger-scale robots,” Cappelleri says. “By developing these robots to go into the body, it allows you to do some really precise operations, whether that be deliver a drug, manipulate a cell, characterize an object, etc.” – Purdue University
Read the full release and see more pictures here.
🥁WORLD'S SMALLEST DRUM: At just 50 microns in diameter, it's 184 TRILLION times smaller than that @PurdueBands icon, the World's Largest Drum. It was 3D-printed by @DaveCappelleri, to show just how accurate @NanoscribeGmbH printers are: https://t.co/v54O92p0z3 pic.twitter.com/BPZ73x0xL0
— Purdue Mechanical Engineering (@PurdueME) September 5, 2023
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