High-resolution microscope is made from LEGO bricks
By Alexdemarco in Technology
Updated 3 years ago
A fully functional modular microscope has been built using LEGO bricks and low-cost smartphone lenses. Designed by researchers, teachers and schoolchildren in Germany, the instrument is easy to build, yet it can resolve micrometre-sized objects such as individual living cells. The idea for a LEGO microscope came to biophysicist Timo...