Science Bricks @ScienceBricks
We're interested in the use of Lego in science research and communication. From the people that brought you the @brickopore DNA sequencer. Joined November 2019-
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Building An Interferometer With LEGO: hackaday.com/2025/02/28/bui…
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Please add your FREE vote of support for my Inventor Kit on LEGO Ideas. Link in the comments. #LEGO #LEGOideas #steam #education #learningthroughplay
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I had a really fun day today running some LEGO workshops for Science week #scienceweek #dna #lego #workshops #learningthroughplay
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Also revealed today is #LEGO Ideas 21355 The Evolution of STEM! brickset.com/article/118591…
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A full size @illumina NovaSeq 6000 in @LEGO_Group seem at #ESMO2024 @myESMO It even has Lego flowcells.
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‘Infinite’ Lego domino ring 📹 JK Brickworks
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Lufthansa Technik revealed a CFM Leap-1B engine made entirely out of Lego bricks with mobile parts
This is fantastic work!
This is fantastic work!
MobileBrick: Building LEGO for 3D Reconstruction on Mobile Devices openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR20…
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⚙️Exciting times at #ZBI @SIC_Saar at @Saar_Uni as we conflate the world of #Bioinformatics🧬with the creativity of @LEGO_Group🔧🧱. We use @brickopore to illustrate how @nanopore sequencing works and explain how #Bioinformatics is essential to get from data🧬to insights💡.
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A robot made of Lego can quickly perform an important step for creating machines made of DNA newscientist.com/article/238320…
Anyone fancy doing a @LEGO_Careers PhD on friction? lego.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LEGO_Ext…
Something for research organisations to mirror??? The whole @LEGO_Group stops for a day for the annual Play Day.
Something for research organisations to mirror??? The whole @LEGO_Group stops for a day for the annual Play Day.
How to Sort Them? A Network for LEGO Bricks Classification - link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Translating a Visual LEGO Manual to a Machine-Executable Plan - link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…
Associations and indirect effects between LEGO® construction and mathematics performance - srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
Scientists build 3D bioprinter from LEGO bricks as low-cost solution to printing human skin designboom.com/technology/sci… via @designboom
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Just updated our Events page with some pictures/tweets from brickopore users around the world. Great to see all this passion for science communication using Lego Mindstorms. @LEGO_Group See brickopore.co.uk/events/
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