Make Your Own Light Sheet Microscope

Thinking about light sheet microscopy? Openspim.org gives you fantastically detailed assembly instructions to create your very own Selective Plane Illumination Microscope. Credit to Dr. Guillaume Duclos for pointing this resource out. Don’t forget to check out the paper on this project put out by Peter Pitrone, Johannes Schindelin, Luke Stuyvenberg, Stephan Preibisch, Michael Weber, Kevin […]

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PuffAdder: A DIY Picospritzer

No not the snake. This is the name Joe Raimondo’s DIY picospritzer, which delivers picoliter to nanoliter “spritzes” of liquid in short pulses.  His blog gives a great step-by-step guide to building one. And if you’re looking for something a little more robust, check out their paper on Openspritzer in Nature where they build and […]

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Tiny Florescence Microscopy

Check out this 3D printable florescence microscope with filter wheel, digital acquisition, and temperature control! All for less than half a grand. Dr. Peter Foster recently made one of these himself so we have at least one solid positive user experience with the device. However Peter says he took a shortcut with the illumination LED […]

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