E12 - Intrucoes-montagem espectrômetro

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24/07/2018 🎈 Public Lab: Assembling the Public Lab Lego Spectrometer

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Assembling the Public Lab Lego Spectrometer

by warren with asnow , Bronwen | 13 Dec 06:27

1. Lay out your pieces

You should have 53 parts, of 10 different types:

1. Four (4) 1 x 2 bricks - 3004 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3004) 2. Thirty three (33) 1 x 4 bricks - 3010 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3010)

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6. Four (4) 6 x 8 plate - 3036 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3036) 7. Two (2) 2 x 4 45 slopes - 3037 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3037)

8. Four (4) 1 x 2 Technic brick with hole - 3700 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3700) 9. Two (2) 1 x 4 Technic brick with holes - 3701 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=3701) 10. Three (3) Technic pins with friction ridges - 2780 (https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?C=11&P=2780) Here are images of all the pieces in the order above:

Also see this page (/w/lego-spectrometer#Parts) for links to 3D-printable models on Thingiverse and Tinkercad.

Assemble the case

The case is made of legos, in three levels, as shown here. It's designed to be rigid but to be made of as few different types of Lego as possible, and using cheaper pieces:

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Level 1

Start with one of the 6x8 plates and use 5 1x4 bricks to enclose all but one side. Add a sloped piece as shown.

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At what will become the "front" of the spectrometer, add one 1x4 Technic brick with holes with one peg in the middle. Behind it, place a regular 1x4 brick (to stop light leaking in).

Level 2

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Use 1x4 bricks to continue the Level 2 walls to the front, but end with the L-shaped 2x2 bricks to create a narrower window at the front:

In front of the L-shaped bricks, add two 1x2 Technic bricks with holes and pegs. This forms the locking interface with the sample holder, or any other "compatible" attachments.

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Level 3

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Sample holder

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Use 4 of the 1x2 bricks and 2 of the 1x2 Technics bricks with holes to complete the second layer and the negative side of the pin "interface" --see how they line up with the pegs on the main body? A hole is left at the back for light to shine in, although if you're doing some kinds of analysis (like #fluorescence (/tag/fluorescence)), you'll want this hole on the side instead.

Finish the 3rd level of the sample holder with 4 1x4 bricks, and snap it onto the main body.

Here it is assembled! The hole on top is for sample containers (/wiki/spectrometry-sampling) -- like cuvettes. You may want to pad it with black paper or foam core to make a tighter fit for whatever sample containers you use.

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On the inside of the window of the main body, tape or glue the narrow slit we've printed on negative film. You can also make your own from two sheets of precisely cut paper or metal foil, or two razor blades.

You can use permanent double-sided foam tape, or hot glue, to affix the camera to the slope. Once it's in the box it won't be moved around, but you want it to be firmly attached. If you have a webcam instead of a Raspberry Pi camera, attach it here instead, although you may need to modify the box to fit it -- our Webcam kit includes an extra row of legos to make your kit 1 row taller to fit the webcam. (For the Webcam kit, we've

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found that adding the extra Legos as the first or bottom row works best, rather than adding them on top -- that way the camera lens and the slit are at the same height!)

Here's the standard Raspberry Pi camera setup:

Cut out a slice of DVD and peel off the transparent layer, then cut it down to size as shown here (from the papercraft spectrometer instructions (https://publiclab.org/notes/warren/11-30-2017/build-a-papercraft-spectrometer-for-your-phone-version-2-0)).

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Tape or glue the DVD slice onto a piece of stiff black card paper (as provided in our kit), or use Lego to make a frame if you like. Just be sure it's very firmly affixed in place - I've used some very strong tape, but you can also use hot glue. Be sure the outer edge of the DVD is at the top --see the curvature in the image below as a guide.

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Now fold up and add the black paper liner included in the kit. This is really just a simple black box to add extra light-damping protection, especially where Legos may be shiny enough to cause reflections.

Now put the cover back on and seal up the end where the ribbon comes out, using some opaque tape. I could do a better job in this picture, but it's nice to illustrate:

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Complete!

Now plug your Raspberry Pi into the camera cable and you're done with assembly! See this post (https://publiclab.org/notes/partsandcrafts/12-03-2017/setting-up-the-raspberry-pi-camera-for-wireless-streaming) by @partsandcrafts (/profile/partsandcrafts) for instructions on setting up your Raspberry Pi to stream images over WiFi, or with the right cables you can plug in a monitor and keyboard and capture images that way.

There are a lot of things we could refine about this, and we're hoping you'll share your setups and any new add-ons you develop.

Upgrades and next steps

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Thanks and good luck!

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