IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator

Abstract. We present a pinned insect manipulator (IMp) constructed of LEGO® building bricks with two axes of movement and two axes of rotation. In addition we present three variants of the IMp to emphasise the modular design, which facilitates resizing to meet the full range of pinned insect specime...

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Autores principales: Dupont, Steen, Price, Benjamin, Blagoderov, Vladimir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685035
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8788
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description Abstract. We present a pinned insect manipulator (IMp) constructed of LEGO® building bricks with two axes of movement and two axes of rotation. In addition we present three variants of the IMp to emphasise the modular design, which facilitates resizing to meet the full range of pinned insect specimens, is fully customizable, collapsible, affordable and does not require specialist tools or knowledge to assemble.
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spelling pubmed-43191042015-02-15 IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator Dupont, Steen Price, Benjamin Blagoderov, Vladimir Zookeys Research Article Abstract. We present a pinned insect manipulator (IMp) constructed of LEGO® building bricks with two axes of movement and two axes of rotation. In addition we present three variants of the IMp to emphasise the modular design, which facilitates resizing to meet the full range of pinned insect specimens, is fully customizable, collapsible, affordable and does not require specialist tools or knowledge to assemble. Pensoft Publishers 2015-02-04 /pmc/articles/PMC4319104/ /pubmed/25685035 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8788 Text en Steen Dupont, Benjamin Price, Vladimir Blagoderov http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator
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title_full IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator
title_fullStr IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator
title_full_unstemmed IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator
title_short IMp: The customizable LEGO(®) Pinned Insect Manipulator
title_sort imp: the customizable lego(®) pinned insect manipulator
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4319104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685035
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8788
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