It never ceases to amaze me when I see a story like this. Geek Dad, Wired blog network blogger, found this "... USB microscope is controlled via a LEGO framework that moves the microscope and focuses automatically by raising and lowered the sample to be scanned." It's developer, PhD student, Jamie Robinson says this about Mindstorms "[it] allows for the rapid development of mechanical solutions that may take weeks to produce using traditional manufacturing processes. The use of LEGO Mindstorms provides us with a convenient, robust, programmable controller." This is just one more reason for me to want Mindstorms!
