Comments on: Measuring the Plank Constant With Lego https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/01/16/measuring-the-plank-constant-with-lego/ All about electronics and circuit design Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2015/01/16/measuring-the-plank-constant-with-lego/comment-page-1/#comment-1338761 Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:17:40 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=29591#comment-1338761 Other scientific use for LEGO:

Lego contraption allows scientists to safely handle insects
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/02/lego-contraption-allows-scientists-safely-handle-insects

Handling insect specimens can be more precarious than lassoing a fly. Delicate antennae, legs, and wings break with the slightest blunder. Now, researchers have found a solution, and it’s built from Legos.

Their contraption
can move and rotate insects every which way while keeping them stable and positioned under a microscope. The design improves on previous insect manipulators because it’s cheap, customizable, and easy to build

IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator
http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=4667

We present a pinned insect manipulator (IMp) constructed of LEGO® building bricks with two axes of movement and two axes of rotation. In addition we present three variants of the IMp to emphasise the modular design, which facilitates resizing to meet the full range of pinned insect specimens, is fully customizable, collapsible, affordable and does not require specialist tools or knowledge to assemble.

We believe the insect specimen manipulators presented here are a valuable addition to any entomologist’s toolbox and that the use of any insect manipulator is in the interest of anyone dealing with valuable specimens as the actual handling of the specimen is reduced to a minimum during examination.

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