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Finally, Someone Has 3D Printed The World’s Tiniest Working Cordless Drill

Great news for ants.

​Ants of the world, rejoice! Y'all finally have a holdable cordless drill to hang up those pictures.

A New Zealand man has created the world's tiniest working cordless drill through the magic of 3D printing. Lance Abernethy told​ 3DPrint.com that the idea of creating this miniature marvel came from his fascnation with teeny tiny things.

"I was with my work colleagues and was talking about mythical stories about one country making a twist drill and sending it to another," he told the website. "The other country returned it with a hole through the middle. Things like this easily challenge me and my idea was born."

Using a normal sized drill for reference, Abernethy 3D printed the one seen in the video using millimeter measurements. A hearing aid battery powers the mighty motor, which is connected using headphone wiring—and that was the easy part.

"It took me three hours to solder and try and squeeze [all the parts] in," he told the blog. "The wires kept breaking off when I was trying to connect them and it was a nightmare trying to hold them in place and try not to short the battery."

Between this, a puny 3D printe​d padlock, and a compact (yet classic!) Mini Eames lounge c​hair, ant apartments are looking real swanky.