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Fly-through promotional render of the real thing: https://youtu.be/h_zgURwr6nA

Incredible technology - the light-source works by generating droplets of molten tin, firing them through a chamber at around (IIRC) 200mph, and hitting each droplet with two laser pulses... at 50kHz.

How they achieve that using Lego is beyond me.

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> How they achieve that using Lego is beyond me.

They used a 3nm process node[1] to squeeze this machine into Lego-sized blocks.

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1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process

> How they achieve that using Lego is beyond me.

I'm so confused by this sentence. What does the real thing have to do with Lego?

I imagine it was a good joke. At least I laughed.

Sorry yes that last part was a joke :-)

It is crazy that it had to be explained and you feel the need to apologize for it.

Thank you - that's humour though isn't it? I think the best jokes start with a moment of confusion which is resolved by sudden understanding, but sometimes that understanding never arrives and then the joke doesn't land - that's partly due to the listener and partly due to the person telling the joke.

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