Building advanced scientific instruments is often a story of many small steps. One of them is simply making sure everything is connected – literally.

In this stage of the fastMOT project, we recently connected the cables that drive the superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors.

Watch the full system come together in time-lapse:

And the effort is already paying off: the team in Milano captured the first camera-like image taken with the SNSPD array specially made for the fastMOT project, a moment worth celebrating.