  The Adaptive Optics Lucky Imager (AOLI) is a new instrument designed to
combine adaptive optics (AO) and lucky imaging (LI) techniques to deliver high
spatial resolution in the visible, 20 mas, from ground-based telescopes. Here
we present details of the integration and verification phases explaining the
defiance that we have faced and the innovative and versatile solution of
modular integration for each of its subsystems that we have developed.
Modularity seems a clue key for opto-mechanical integration success in the
extremely-big telescopes era. We present here the very fresh preliminary
results after its first fully-working observing run on the WHT.
