{"id":7854,"date":"2021-07-05T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2021-07-23T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:54:08","slug":"german-scientists-built-a-high-res-microscope-from-lego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/german-scientists-built-a-high-res-microscope-from-lego\/","title":{"rendered":"German Scientists Built A High-res Microscope From Lego"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist, German scientists built a high-resolution microscope using Lego pieces and components they had received from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is part of an ongoing trend of &#8220;frugal science,&#8221; which uses cheap consumer hardware and open-source software to build low-cost scientific instruments.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2021\/07\/german-scientists-built-a-high-resolution-microscope-out-of-lego-bricks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Arstechnica.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German scientists built a high-resolution microscope using Lego pieces and components they had received from a mobile phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7905,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7854\/revisions\/7905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}