LEGO Device Models
Models of instruments and effects built from LEGOs.
Clicking a thumbnail on this web page (http://chemistry.beloit.edu/edetc/cineplex/LEGO/index.html) shows a movie of that demonstration.
A laser beam reflects off a cantilever probe to map an array of LEGO
magnets.
A laser beam reflects off a cantilever probe to map a refrigerator magnet.
Charge coupled devices used as detectors in digital cameras can determine
the position of incoming photons.
Model of electron spin alignment in a giant magnetoresistance material.
The alignment changes upon application of a magnetic field.
An assemblage of LEGO blocks models a material that expands in width
as the length is increased (a negative Poisson ratio).
