microscope
microscope


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yeswarmg "Cat clothes Sometimes, dressing up your cat is just for fun. It's really cool to equip your cat in handsome clothes during the holidays, parties, ..." | Read more » 7 months ago
bhamster "Just adding here for reference if anyone is making their own microscope stage, here's a post about stage designs: https://publiclab.org/questions/m..." | Read more » 8 months ago
bhamster "Thanks @Ag8n! I ended up using a lens from an old laser pointer after discovering that the CD/DVD drive lens was really small (only a couple millim..." | Read more » 10 months ago
Ag8n "Very impressive! Which plastic lens did you use? The one from the computer drive or the one from a laser pointer? Thank you!! " | Read more » 10 months ago
bhamster "I did this! Here's a photo of my microscope in action (without the smartphone, because I needed it to take the photo...). The tiny yellow-ish spec..." | Read more » 10 months ago
Ag8n "Interesting. We would do some of the individual tests, for example oil and grease. These were only done for a short period of time ( a year or tw..." | Read more » 10 months ago
alejobonifacio "wow! I saw the video! It is very interesting how she uses transparent plastic as a slide and coverslip. " | Read more » 10 months ago
Ag8n "Found another good example. It's from six years ago on the PBS series "Gross science". The title on youtube is "See microbes with this DIY phone ..." | Read more » 10 months ago
liz "@bronwen Check this out! " | Read more » 11 months ago
Ag8n "Very helpful video on the lens removal. Thank you. " | Read more » 11 months ago
Ag8n "Yes, that did it! Thank you very much. Only did a quick once over of the diagrams. It looks like they take the focusing lenses out of a CD drive ..." | Read more » 11 months ago
alejobonifacio "Thanks for let me know. Please try with this link... https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343539752_Micro-Hoek_Manual_de_Construccion " | Read more » 11 months ago
Ag8n "Having trouble with the "digital manual of construction in spanish". For whatever reason, the link doesn't work here. Could you please post the i..." | Read more » 11 months ago
TomZ "I finally joined Public Lab! I've been adding youtube videos on building an inexpensive (<$20) lensless holographic microscope (<4um resoluti..." | Read more » about 1 year ago
rebeccaMw "Hi @Porternick This sounds like an exciting initiative in your classroom. The microscope kits provide a unique opportunity to build upon multiple ..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
porternick "@bhamster The kids also loved running outside and grabbing leaves and other debris they found in the backyard. I'm drumming up some ideas for ways..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
porternick "@liz This was our fist time using the community microscope. We gifted a different microscope to our oldest child when she turned 5, but it was very..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
liz "Thank you so much! I've added the link above as per your great catch! Great to meet you. What are you working on? " | Read more » over 1 year ago
porternick "@bhamster Mostly prepared slides from a kids microscope kit. " | Read more » over 1 year ago
bhamster "Love this picture, thanks for sharing! What did you look at under the microscope? " | Read more » over 1 year ago
porternick "My preschooler, 1st grader and I built the Intro Kit over the weekend. We had a blast! They loved using the wing nuts to focus the microscope and t..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
porternick "Step 2 includes a parenthetical referencing webcam conversion instructions--but there is no actual link. I think this is the page with the needed i..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
georgegleed1 "Hi, this looks like a great project and I'd love to try it out. The 3D file links appear to be dead and produce a database error. Any chance anyone..." | Read more » over 1 year ago
fongvania "I did this! " | Read more » over 1 year ago