A new serie! I started it before the storm on the other messy network...Let's revive it. #legoptical Episode 1: the One and only lens! In LEGO, the term optics is not really used. The company produced several optical instruments: glasses, magnifying glasses, binoculars, space binoculars but...

#legoptical Episode 3: An italian twist. In 1997, Franco Quercioli and his colleagues published in SPIE an article entitled: “Play optics with Lego” introducing for the first tie the use of LEGO bricks in setting up an optical instrument!
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#legoptical Episode 5: First simple builds! Once you have a Brick Arch 1x2x1 part, you can a Binocular part and then you have a simple 2 parts scope. Add one more and bing another scope. The combination Brick Arch + Binocular allows you to easily add plates, platform and grow it bigger!

#legoptical Episode 4: The perfect part. To make simple microscopes in LEGO for small labs you need a Brick Arch 1x2x1 part. It looks like a microscope body, comes in many colors and will allow us to build several ones in the coming weeks. Get a few and be ready to build!

#legoptical Episode 2: Star wars Legopticals. LEGO used a lot of so called optical parts in their Star Wars set for Luke, Leia, and the Dark sides guys!