The Community Microscope Kit

Explore the invisible microscopic world around you with an affordable microscope kit you construct yourself.

Using simple materials, we’ve developed a microscope kit you can build yourself - the result of many teams’ work coming together! Introducing the Community Microscope:

Get the word out!

Public Lab is only as strong as our community -- and we need your help to reach our goal of accessible, affordable science instruments anyone can build.

We're posting a few images here we hope will be useful in getting the word out.

Please use the hashtags #communitymicroscope and #communityscience -- and tag us with @PublicLab on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram

Also see this larger collection of images in Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gyznzckh53u0255/AAAY5iuo3LyWFUmELugGQNR0a?dl=0