BrickScope: RMS threaded 8x10 stud brick

Building a microscope isn't that difficult, and there are many tools and resources available for this, but it can seem a bit daunting for the beginner, especially when it comes to the optics. To make this a bit more accessible, we wanted to to make something flexible and adaptable that makes experimenting with basic microscope optics quick and easy. Using construction toy bricks (such as lego) for structural parts of the microscope should make alignment and stability easier when playing about with the optics.

This design forms part of this system. The excellent OpenFlexure microscope (https://openflexure.org/) showed that optical threads can be reliably printed using FDM printers. so this design integrates a standard microscope lens thread (RMS) into an 8x10 stud brick that is compatible with Lego and other Lego-compatible bricks.

To complete a microscope, you need a finite conjugate RMS threaded lens, a camera/sensor, and some bricks to put some distance between the two. The l