{"id":19115,"date":"2022-03-14T09:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=19115"},"modified":"2022-03-14T09:48:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T16:48:15","slug":"a-300-open-source-lego-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/14\/a-300-open-source-lego-microscope\/","title":{"rendered":"A $300 open-source Lego microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Amazing! Kottke <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/22\/03\/ibms-300-open-source-lego-microscope\">writes<\/a>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Using Lego bricks, a Raspberry Pi mini-computer, an Arduino microcontroller, some off-the-shelf components like lenses, and 3D-printed components, IBM scientist Yuksel Temiz\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ibm-research.medium.com\/ibm-open-sources-300-fully-functional-lego-microscope-design-248a6cdc81bf\" target=\"_blank\">built a fully functional microscope<\/a>\u00a0to help him with his work. The materials cost around $300 and the microscope performs as well as scopes many times more expensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Check it out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IBM open sources $300 fully-functional LEGO\u00ae microscope design\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PBSYnk9T4o4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazing! Kottke writes, Using Lego bricks, a Raspberry Pi mini-computer, an Arduino microcontroller, some off-the-shelf components like lenses, and 3D-printed components, IBM scientist Yuksel Temiz\u00a0built a fully functional microscope\u00a0to help him with his work. The materials cost around $300 and the microscope performs as well as scopes many times more expensive. Check it out:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19116,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19115\/revisions\/19116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}