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HETDEX - Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment. Scienza Ludica - Play Optics with LEGO. The basic elements of a fairly complete optomechanical kit based on the use of LEGOa is presented. Through a careful exploitation of the many standard LEGO elements, and adding a few new simple components made of plexiglass, we demonstrate that almost all of the mechanical parts of an optical setup can be built with little effort and at an extremely reduced cost. Several systems and experiments are presented, mainly in the fields of optical filtering and interferometry, to show that the proposed mountings are perfectly suitable for didactic purposes, and can often be employed even in more demanding scientific applications. Keywords: Education in optics, optical mounts, modular systems. In professional optical equipments, mechanical components make up a sizeable part in terms of cost, weight and size. Some of the basic components of an optomechanical setup, like tilters and rotators, are already included, although usually in a very raw version, in commercially available LEGO kits. 2.1.
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