Starting last weekend my ATLAS LEGO model is out in the open … since then my visitors count on this webpage increased by 10.000! The 3D image of the model is on the front page of the ATLAS website regularly and various newspapers and blogs already wrote about it …

• ATLAS (link)
• CERN Courier (Volume 52, Jan/Feb 2012, p. 43 + front page)
• CNET Crave Gadget – Rich Trenholm (link)
• Corriere della Fanatascienza – Leo Lorusso (link)
• CrackJack.de (link)
• CuteDecision – “2cute” (link)
• dailymail.co.uk – Rob Waugh (link)
• DigitalTrends.com – Jeff Hughes (link)
• Discovery Center – Anne Mette Frejsel (link)
• Forbes – Alex Knapp (link)
• French Tribune – Bruce Totolos (link)
• Galileu (link)
• Gandul – Ioana Nicolescu (link)
• Geek.com – Matthew Humphries (link)
• Geekologie.com (link)
• Gizmodo Australia – Logan Booker (link)
• The Guardian – LifeAndPhysics – JonButterworth (link)
• Ingeniøren –  Torben R. Simonsen (link)
• Laboratory News – Kerry Taylor Smith (link)
• NyTeknik – Jan Melin (link)
• OSEL.cz – Stanislav Mihulka (link)
• PClabs.com.tr – Erdem Gukrer (link)
• PCWorld – Jason Kennedy (link)
• PhysOrg.Com – Bob Yirka (link)
• Physics World (Volume 25, 1 January 2012, p. 3)
• Science&Vie Junior (Volume 273, June 2012, p. 36)
• Scoop.It – Paulo Furtado (link)
• ShlashGear – Shane McGlaun (link)
• Der Standard (link)
• Spektrum der Wissenschaft – Physik WebWatch (link)
• Supermozg.pl – Bartosz Łopiński (link)
• SyFy Idea Lab – Tiffany Lee Brown (link)
• SyFy Idea Lab Interview – Tiffany Lee Brown (link)
• Symmetry Breaking – Amy Dusto (link)
• Technology Review – Peter Glaser (link)
• Tiede – Maria Korteila (Volume 2, 2012, p. 58)
• TG Daily – Emma Woollacott (link)
• Traqueur Stellaire – Guillaume Calu (link)
• Universitetsavisen (1) – Madhura Mukhopadhyay (link)
• Universitetsavisen (2) – Polina Chebotareva & Mike Young (link)
• University of Melbourne – Science Matters –  Cristen Teen (link)
• The Verge – Ross Miller (link)
• Wired – Katie Scott (link)
• Wired Taiwan – Min-Fang Huang (link)
• Wired GeekDad – Roy Wood (link)
• Wired Science – Daniela Hernandez (link)

Designing and building the first ATLAS model made of interconnectable plastic bricks (that’s what you name it if you cannot name it) was just the first of many things to be done.

After fighting and writing unsuccessfully to a whole bunch of people, I seem to have finally found the right person to be able to get hands on more bricks for more models. We’ll probably end up with models at quite a few institutes and exhibitions all around the world. But this is still work and mainly organisation in progress …

Besides that I started recording the construction manual video. After a first, slightly unsuccessful, attempt in my living room at home (I specifically set up lighting and a plate on top of my foosball table) and went out to collaboration with our media/outreach section. Today we have finally managed to set up a scene at the institute and started taking a few first shots. Due to the above mentioned collaboration and the resulting increase in professionalism (great camera, an actual camera operator, lighting and editing) I was convinced to shoot an intro clip. Which turned out to be the only thing we managed within today’s two hour session …
to my defence it features three different camera settings and three different languages (English, Danish, German)!

So there has been a lot of progress …
Still, there is also a lot of progress to be made ;)

I build that sitting at home sick :(

It’s the latest addition to the club:
a female ATLAS stature.

In addition, I updated/improved the small ATLAS model and will test it soonish. And finally, I just got the confirmation, that the pieces for the second large model are on their way to me :)