21/04/2026
We built an ant 🐜
8 mm. From scratch. In many, many pieces.
What you're looking at is every individual component, fresh off the machine, before assembly. No customer asked for this. No defense contract specifies "one (1) miniature ant, ±10 µm."
We built it because it was the cleanest way to answer a question we keep returning to: what are the actual limits?
Turns out that question matters more than it sounds.
The same machines, the same cold-process discipline, the same ±10 µm tolerances that produced this ant are what aerospace and defense manufacturers rely on when a component can't just be within spec — it has to be mission ready.
Those aren't the same thing. Earlier this week, we wrote about exactly why — and what thermal cutting does to titanium and Inconel that a dimensional inspection won't catch.
Happy week! 🐜
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