[extropy-chat] Re: garage nanotech

[Paul Grant]

First, bradbury, what are you talking about?
Second, alex, out of curiousity, what were
you working on that distracted you from the STM.
Incidentally, you wouldn't happen to be out in
Cali, would you?
omard-out
 

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In a message dated 18/11/2003 00:29:48 GMT Daylight Time,
bradbury at blarg.net writes:




It may be useful for Dan to point out to his daughter that if someone
does
pull off tool tip replacement and alternative assembly chemistries for
STMs
that they are probably on the short list for a Nobel Prize (and probably

would have a very *very* large set of royalty income streams from the
patents.)





What is the problem with the tool tip replacement? Is it just the
problem of the tip wearing down and having to be constantly replaced and
shaped? or is the problem more complex?
I toyed with the idea of a home-brew STM not that long ago. I built a
piezo scanning head in a few hours and then became distracted by a more
interesting project. I have thought about continuing the STM
construction and had a few ideas about tool and scanning head
refinements. 
Maybe this thread is just the incentive I need to get the project off
the shelf.

Alex



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