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There are a lot of situations where a research group may turn to an electron microscope to get information about whatever system they might be studying. Assessing the structure of …read more Continue reading Building an Electron Microscope For Research
As smartphones become more ubiquitous in society, they are being used in plenty of ways not imaginable even ten or fifteen years ago. Using its sensors to gather LIDAR information, …read more Continue reading Glowscope Reduces Microscope Cost By Orders of Magnitude
[A. Cemal Ekin] over on PetaPixel reviewed the Apexel 200X LED Microscope Lens. The relatively inexpensive accessory promises to transform your cell phone camera into a microscope. Of course, lenses …read more Continue reading Your Phone is a 200X Microscope — Sort Of
“Look with your eyes, not your hands” is something many of us have heard while growing up, but that doesn’t apply to the touch-sensitive microscope [Steve Mould] got to play …read more Continue reading Behold a Microscope That Sees By Squashing Things Into It
There was a time when electronic engineering students studied the audio CD, for all its real-world examples of error correction and control systems. There’s something to be found in the …read more Continue reading Reading Data From a CD, With a Microscope
Laser scanning microscopes are useful for all kinds of tiny investigations. As it turns out, you can build one using parts salvaged from a Blu-ray player, as demonstrated by [Doctor …read more Continue reading Laser Scanning Microscope Built With Blu-ray Parts
Hackers frequently find themselves reverse-engineering or interfacing to existing hardware and devices, and when that interface needs to be a physical one, it really pays to be able to take …read more Continue reading DIY Comparatron Helps Trace Tiny, Complex Objects
With the advent of streaming services, plenty of people are opting to forego the collection of physical media. In turn, there are now a lot of optical drives sitting unused …read more Continue reading DVD Drives Turned Into Microscopes
If you want to take pictures of tiny things close up, you need a macro lens. Or a microscope. [Nicholas Sherlock] thought “Why not both?” He designed a 3D-printed microscope …read more Continue reading Trying Out a 3D Printed Microscope Lens Adapter
Not a rhetorical question! This week we consider the most micro microcontroller: the HC32L110. It’s the new title holder of the smallest ARM Cortex M0+ part. But could you actually …read more Continue reading How Small is Too Small?