Quantego: A Family of Lego Models of IBM Quantum Computers

Interestingly IBM have made LEGO sets of various mainframes. I believe that they have been giving them away as prizes and such, there is also a few other companies with LEGO sets listed on the page as well: https://domjant.hu/bricks/

Shame there's no lego model with the dangly bits showing.

I guess these are the kind of updates we are getting on Quantum Computing these days ^^'

Builder Andrew Eylar built the Red Room of the IBM building on king street in Lego, which I thought was cool:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hoyvinmayvin/40487057474/

These are all just models of the cryostats and classical computer interfaces used to cool and read out from the quantum computing devices. These are not the quantum computing devices themselves.

(Before anyone starts. Yes, the read out is essential, but room temperature devices are coming to the forefront now so no the cryostat is not a compulsory part of the QC setup.)

I saw a tour take place at my facility whereby a man pointed at an empty cryostat and said "Wow, a quantum computer". None of us had the heart to tell him otherwise.

Sounds like a bikeshedding project of some QC researcher.

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"quantum computing" is a scam field that only survives by scamming the stock market and the taxpayer.

there are zero people worthy of respect working in this field. If you work "in quantum" look in the mirror and move on.

Rendering of LEGO models built with Claude [1], using LDrawLoader [2] (from three.js).

[1]: https://github.com/JanLahmann/Quantego/commits/main/assets/j...

[2]: https://threejs.org/docs/#LDrawLoader