Wooden Scope

Here’s a $10 wood cut out microscope that you can use with your smart phone. While the magnification isn’t much, unlike Foldscope you don’t have to mount your samples on a slide. It’s easy to assemble and disassemble and packs flat, making it an ideal low-mag tool to put in your bag and use during […]

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Foldscope

Foldscope is a paper-based microscope with a magnification of 140X and a resolution of 2 microns. You can buy 20 of them for $35 or get a fancy one for $40.  Maya Anjur-Dietrich gave me an old model to play with. Included was a low mag lens, and a high mag lens with condenser. There was […]

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