For our greatest delight (at least mine), Andrew Lipson is a crazy guy. He's building many funny things in Lego. Like topological surfaces, Klein bottle, from the in/out-side ! Escher pictures, waterfall Or scultpures, like Rodin's thinker However, lego construction may be a way to counter-act the financial crisis which has the inconvenient to cut funding in research laboratory. For instance, Daniel strange (I don't invent anything !) built and programmed a crane that moves in a set path, raising and lowering the sample between beakers containing solutions using a Lego Mindstorms NXT kit. Neat.
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