• LEGO FOS

    Stylized black and gray brick-built optical module glowing orange at left, with several clear illuminated curved cables extending into a white spacecraft-like build against a starry planetary backdrop.
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    When LEGO Used Fiber Optics: The Forgotten 9V Lighting System of the 1990s

    A forgotten LEGO 9V fiber-optic system from 1996 leads to the history of global optical communications, modern sensing, hollow-core research and a thought experiment about LEGO models that exchange data using light.

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