Artist Carl Merriam has been building with Lego bricks for 27 years and after many successful projects, he managed to build a fully functional microscope using only Legos. The world has seen some amazing sets come to life via Lego Ideas, but this project shows a more practical application.
"This build was originally inspired by the LEGO X-Pod sets. While trying to find a use for the pod itself, I realized that it was very close to a deep petri dish," he wrote. "I used a planetary gear system to allow both coarse and fine adjustment of the objective 'lens'. A little more tinkering and I connected the focus to a magnifying glass and fiber optic light in the eyepiece, so adjusting the focus knobs would actually bring the writing on a LEGO stud in and out of focus."
The microscope can be used to achieve a magnification of 10x using actual Lego magnifying glasses, with light provided by the Lego Power Functions Light. Just like lab-quality microscopes, it also features adjustment knobs and an adjustable stage with stage clips to keep the slides in place.
It's Lego, not Legos. So, idiots, the plural for Lego pieces is Lego. Absorb it, tell your friends.
ReplyDeletebut i have more than one lego, so it has to be legos.
DeleteAre you foreign or sum ting?
Actually it isn't, check up on it. I agree, Legos does sound dumb, but it is indeed correct.
DeleteAmerican's, I think (though some other nations too perhaps) refer to more than one Lego piece as Legos, but trust me on this, it's just Lego, it's a collective term by definition, you wouldn't be cutting the grasses now would you?
Deleteno but its more than one. Like Nike, more than one is Nikes!
DeleteSays the guy who can't properly pluralize "Americans." The apostrophe shows either possession or a contraction. There are other cases where it can be used to show plurality, but this is not one of them.
Deletea wall built entirely out of bricks. STFU
DeleteThis person is right, because LEGO is a brand name. You have LEGO pieces or LEGO bricks or LEGO minifigs.
Deletewho the fuck cares
DeleteNo one. That's who.
DeleteIn Denmark (The country where LEGO started) we say one "LEGO-klods" (LEGO brick) and two "LEGO-klodser" (LEGO bricks). :-)
DeleteLEGO, not Legos. It's annoying how people try to correct the person who is already correct. It is also Nike shoes, Nikes is incorrect but people still say it. Just because people say it doesn't mean they are correct.
DeleteEverything I say is correct, so i dont give a damn and keep saying Legos.
DeleteLEGOS LEGOS LEGOS LEGOS, SHOW ME SUM LEGOS.
If you have a field of sheep you have more than one, but they aren't called sheeps, just the same as LegoLand has thousands of pieces of lego, but doesn't call itself LegosLand does it?
ReplyDeleteCows. Horses. Donkeys. Goats. Chickens. Lions. Tigers. Bears. Oh my.
DeleteOf course not. Lego is the brand name. LegoLand. Lego branded universe.
DeleteThe individual pieces are Lego bricks. To differentiate between the singular name of the brand, the bricks are dubbed Legos.
Right on brother!
ReplyDeleteA Lego, A collection of Lego, Many Legos. Just like with grass. A grass (as in a kind of grass), A collection of grass (A Lawn), Many grasses (many kinds of grasses).
ReplyDeleteYou are incorrect. Many Lego Bricks. Anyone who has worked for this company has been informed of that the correct plural is Lego bricks.
DeleteBut not Legos...
ReplyDeleteHave any of you retards whining about the plural form of lego actually ever touched a woman?
ReplyDeleteYes, and I am a woman. Most of us wouldn't correct people in public or in casual conversation. This is a formal publication and should take the time to use the correct term.
DeleteThis article failed to answer my first question: What is the magnifying glass made out of? Is that Lego too? If not, it's not "entirely" made out of Lego.
ReplyDeleteThe article specifically says that the lens is in fact Lego, it is a 10x lens.
DeleteCan I get a copy of the 'build list'? I'd love to build one of these with my kids.
ReplyDeleteLet's just say it's Lego Bricks.
ReplyDeleteAs someone who worked for lego i can tell you if we said legos in front of a boss we could have been fired on the spot. if you want to refer to more then one lego you say lego brick/block. never legos
ReplyDeleteJesus people .... seriously go out and Touch a few "Vagina's" and get ya "hand's" wet..... you wont worry about how to properly Pronounce Lego singular or Plural!!!
ReplyDelete"You're not wrong, you're just an asshole."
ReplyDeleteA lot of people with liberal arts degrees in the comments section.
I had so many sets of LEGOS when I was young. I loved them!
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