IMp: The customizable LEGO® Pinned Insect Manipulator

By

Dupont, Steen
Price, Benjamin
Blagoderov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich 1968-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2015

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

481

Pages

131-138

Subjects

Digitization , Entomology , imaging , Specimen Manipulator , Stage

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.481.8788

 

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.