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Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by spijdar »

lostgame wrote: post #28
offtop5 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why though. You need to physically buy Legos for this project. It's not like their showing how to print Legos

Not to be that person, but it's 'LEGO', whether singular or plural. I used to work for LEGO and they would take this really seriously. Similar to 'deer', one LEGO brick is one LEGO brick. A pile of LEGO bricks is still a pile of LEGO bricks. :) https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912

Like someone mentioned in another thread (edit: and another reply written while I typed this), LEGO the company cares about this for trademark reasons -- they don't want the word to become generic and lose trademark protections.

In the US, I've never actually heard someone use the "correct" plural, everyone just says "Legos", which makes it reasonably correct IMO. That said, I've heard "LEGO" plural occasionally in Europe, more people seem to care across the pond.

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by detaro »

InitialLastName wrote: post #29
lostgame wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to be that person, but it's 'LEGO', whether singular or plural. I used to work for LEGO and they would take this really seriously. Similar to 'deer', one LEGO brick is one LEGO brick. A pile of LEGO bricks is still a pile of LEGO bricks. :) https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912

LEGO (the company)has to take it seriously because they have to defend their trademark. Likewise, the manufacturer of hook-and-loop fabric closures has to be very clear [0] when a hook-and-loop fabric closure is their product or not, but lay-people are happy to call them all Velcro. [0] https://www.velcro.com/about-us/trademark-guidelines/ Edit: pronouns not my game

How is that relevant to the plural case?

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by fnord77 »

Dachande663 wrote: post #16
busyant wrote: post #12

I know a chem prof who built a Lego spectrometer. https://publiclab.org/wiki/lego-spectrometer Legos are just wonderful. edit: I know nothing about woodworking or crafting any building materials, but I always wish I could perform those types of projects. And whenever some potential project comes up, I think to myself, "but I could build it with Legos."

Please note, the plural form of LEGO is LEGO, not Legos. As per LEGO themselves[0]. [0] https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912?lan...

I don't think we should allow corporations to dictate how we use language.

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by dsr_ »

lostgame wrote: post #28
offtop5 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why though. You need to physically buy Legos for this project. It's not like their showing how to print Legos

Not to be that person, but it's 'LEGO', whether singular or plural. I used to work for LEGO and they would take this really seriously. Similar to 'deer', one LEGO brick is one LEGO brick. A pile of LEGO bricks is still a pile of LEGO bricks. :) https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912

LEGO fan for 40+ years here, last set purchased a couple of weeks ago. Don't bother doing this.

- People who care will notice that other people who care use the term appropriately, and will do it themselves.

- People who don't care won't, and will be annoyed if you correct them.

You can use the difference as a shibboleth.

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by em-bee »

InitialLastName wrote: post #29
lostgame wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to be that person, but it's 'LEGO', whether singular or plural. I used to work for LEGO and they would take this really seriously. Similar to 'deer', one LEGO brick is one LEGO brick. A pile of LEGO bricks is still a pile of LEGO bricks. :) https://twitter.com/lego_group/status/842115345280294912

LEGO (the company)has to take it seriously because they have to defend their trademark. Likewise, the manufacturer of hook-and-loop fabric closures has to be very clear [0] when a hook-and-loop fabric closure is their product or not, but lay-people are happy to call them all Velcro. [0] https://www.velcro.com/about-us/trademark-guidelines/ Edit: pronouns not my game

i think you meant to say "their trademark"

Re: Lego Microscope

#36

Post by etrautmann »

seesawtron wrote: post #17

How about a paper based microscope developed by Manu Prakash at MIT? [0] Its supposed to cost 50 Cent. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foldscope

This was developed at Stanford right? That’s where Manu Prakash works and that link says Stanford as well.

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by jonplackett »

busyant wrote: post #12

I know a chem prof who built a Lego spectrometer. https://publiclab.org/wiki/lego-spectrometer Legos are just wonderful. edit: I know nothing about woodworking or crafting any building materials, but I always wish I could perform those types of projects. And whenever some potential project comes up, I think to myself, "but I could build it with Legos."

Would be great if Lego jumped on board projects like both of these and released them as kits.

They'd only need create a few 'scientific' bricks to make them work. Not that different from Mindstorms.

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by jonplackett »

evanb wrote: post #27

Here’s a functional all-Lego microscope: https://ideas.lego.com/projects/fcce15cd-27e0-405b-990b-681b... No non-Lego pieces; even the lenses are Lego minifig-scale magnifying glasses. Unfortunately, it didn’t get enough backers in time to advance to production.

The downside being that the 'through microscope' image just looks like a badly enlarged version of what you can see on the slide...

Re: Lego Microscope

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Post by em-bee »

pantalaimon wrote: post #30
OldTimeCoffee wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've linked a Daily Mail story with a baseless assertion and LEGO themselves said it was because of the logo of the store. The story has the owner of the store holding up a t-shirt of the logo such that it's somewhat obscured and the remaining focus is on the store itself.

Well he stopped selling LEGO after that and is now promoting LEGO alternatives which do have a better price / quality ratio. That LEGO tries to push any competition out of the market with shady legal tactics (e.g. claiming minifigures appear too similar even though they clearly feature different proportions and characteristics) while at the same time hiking prices leaves a bad taste.

indeed. fortunately bluebrixx is now attempting to get the lego 3d design mark of their minifigures invalidated. not because bluebrix wants to sell minifigure clones, but because lego is using their 3d mark as basis for their claim that any other minifigures even dissimilar ones would violate that mark. bluebrix believes that they have a good chance to be successful.
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