A microscope is an optical instrument that can be used for magnification. It's often made up of multiple parts, including: * optics (lens, focus, calibration) * a camera * a lighting system * a moving stage to hold slides Community Microscope Kit We’ve developed a microscope kit you can build yourself - the result of many teams’ work coming together! Read more about the Community Microscope! ## Questions Questions can be either frequently asked questions, or "next step" challenges we're looking to solve. [questions:microscopes] ## Activities Activities show how to use this project, step by step. [activities:microscopes] ## Updates [notes:microscopes] ...
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| richardbowman | "Brilliant - I've wanted to make a carry case for absolutely ages, but other things keep getting in the way. I'll be excited to see what you come u..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "a note to myself: I found this article on calibrating microscopes useful background. http://www.agarscientific.com/media/import/Calibration-of-Micr..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "thanks Richard! I'll try the new files soon. I'm excited to contribute some mounting files to the project and a carrying case. Will get on those in..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| richardbowman | "Hey, nice work :) I have also had problems with the legs getting detached during printing, and discovered there was a bug in my OpenSCAD code - it..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Although we are hopeful that Simon's strategies listed here can get us to a particle count, If they aren't sufficient Rongjun Qin recommended we lo..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "You can get the analysis spreadsheet here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xSVT9lxary0zZhhEqhrX3hsdIb4shbYhaOJx_RWhESg/edit#gid=0 " | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "That's a great writeup! thanks Simon. If anyone needs an image set to play with, please e-mail me, and I can share the files. They're too large t..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "I'd like to do a screencap to show just how smooth this movement is. This is so cool to see in action. Exciting to see it built from plans to deplo..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| richardbowman | "Hmm, yeah - getting things to reliably push-fit without crazy excessive force is quite tricky between printers, it could just be that your printer ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I was able to get one of the nuts to sit firmly at the bottom, but the other two wouldn't. My print might be a little messy there, I'm not sure. O..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| richardbowman | "Super. Oh, and I meant to say - the hexagonal holes are deliberately oversized, they taper down at the end to grip the nut firmly. The idea is yo..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Awesome Richard, thanks! The basic mechanism of the rubber bands works flawlessly, the smooth motion is really impressive. I have to post a video..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| richardbowman | "Hi Matt, good to hear you got it working :) I have switched to single elastic bands now, and you're right, it does make it much easier. The ins..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I found this great tutorial on automating ImageJ scripting and batch processing. It got me up and batch processing in short order: Arjun Mehta, UC..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| SimonPyle | "@marlokeno That's a great tip for eyeballing and catching dust. On that note, as I clean up a prototype of some code to automate this process, I'm..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| marlokeno | "@mathew, @SimonPyle, @AmberWise, @Damarquis, @Pagyebo Wonderful work- I can't imagine counting particles while sizing them, etc. So cheers to the ..." | Read more » | over 8 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I'm writing up an introduction to particles in the air right now (rough draft), and one of the questions I wanted to answer was about naked eye obs..." | Read more » | almost 9 years ago | |||
| marlokeno | "One possibility in order to get a clearer image is to try using the "threshold" filter in photoshop, or photoshop elements, GIMP, etc. It's helped ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "I was wondering if, since the silica kind of redirects the light (a little like fiber optic), if you could illuminate it with a directional light d..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "I found a scanner, the Canon 9000F and 9000F MKII, with an optical resolution of 9600dpi and an interpolated resolution of 19200dpi, or pixels 2.6μ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| stevie | "Neat Mathew! nice work. " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "Also, just want to repeat that corporate and government types are very sensitive to this kind of data. Even though I am tasked to work on water, I..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| eustatic | "cool. My understanding is that, at least for coal dust (=mostly crystalline silica), most particles of interest fall in the PM10 category. GCMoni..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| mathew | "Ok. Updated. the situation is better than I thought. A 4800dpi scanner could definitely give straight PM10 measurements, possibly with identifica..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago |