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so this is really cool we're in the Microsoft model shop this is where Microsoft's actual products are designed and built we're talking to Carson a guard you're a model maker here and you guys basically build this stuff from scratch with your bare hands sometimes sometimes with 3d printers and you go from just prototype to prototype to prototype into an actual product so this is where the actual projecting so we basically try to build prototypes in real time when they want it five o'clock they dump their files we get it running 8:00 in the morning they come in it's ready to go we just got this a couple of weeks ago this is the one that prints multi materials there's four print heads and each print head will can be dedicated to two different materials and they will mix kind of like color you have RGB and you'll mix different colors what is the material that you put in here what does it look it's a it's a UV cured epoxy so it's actually a liquid this is a 3d printed wrench that you printed in one piece yeah so that shows the ability to be able to print multiple parts together as an assembly right that's incredible this chain was also dying also as a single it's it's able to support basically suspend parts in space the support material traps it and holds it when you remove the support material they're free-floating so this was this was printed not in one piece right not in one piece we had some some issues with a mouse in production and we built a four up sized one so they can actually see the physical movement of the wheel very early concepts with like this yeah so d tinted wheel wow that's incredible big so they can play with it see all the little details and you were saying so you this takes you said this this wrench took about 35 minutes to right about 35 minutes you can do an entire Mouse in how long does it take the house about three hours three hours and then you're starting to be able to use different materials yeah there's a soft rubber compound with a hard harder plastic light compound the mix between the two will give you different drama ters you can then two-shot the Wow the parts so this is kind of hard you got hard plastic here then you get rid of rubber like we're representing the side grips of a mouse so you actually have a couple of mouse prototypes here we should look at them yeah so once they create all of the bosses and features inside they're able to load components and do their testing and how long will something like this hold up I mean if you if you put together you've got obviously the space for the electronics and these mice correct you could go and use this as your absolute main device these these don't have a whole lot of thermal integrity if you were to warm this up and bend it it would stay in it let it melt down yeah so over time the thing would tend to kind of sag yeah that's like a human stirred basically yeah we also do test test fixtures so if the mouse has to go through a life cycle rather than spend thousands of dollars creating a fixture that holds the mouse and and then like a robotic finger whatever we'll do life testing on the buttons will create the fixture in 3d do you have a robotic finger here though I'm interested to know if that exists did this morning actually if you thought weird the robotic finger out of the lab we did build actually a hand really is it located just as this all is a fully what is this clear windows this was an example of when we first released Windows Phone they didn't want to show the phone they just wanted to show the cool menu interface this is incredible oh this Navis makes me wanted a clear phone yeah as are you guys working on anything like that did you tell you probably took away all your clear phone for all those other forms are oh yeah this looks great visible yeah I don't know why I'm touching like it's gonna do something it works why isn't this working alright thank you so much this is really very cool thanks for taking us around let's appreciate it