yawn

Posted at 12:43 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by null

I don;t know, I think it’s kind of neat. I could easily see someone doing something like this as an inexpensive school project or something.

Posted at 1:02 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by Nate

This is really a cool idea! I bet that a brass tube and some nicer hardwood and a little time you could make a really nice microscope to keep around in a stylish office/home lab.

Posted at 1:43 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by Loquax

don’t forget to have a look at the rest:
http://www.funsci.com/texts/index_en.htm
i liked the glass-sphere microscope:
http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/usph/usph.htm
(Anton van Leeuwenhoek being from my country)

Posted at 2:06 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by jwstolk

cool!

Posted at 2:44 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by Wim L

I think this is interesting. I got a “childrens” microscope about 7 years ago or such. Aside from the crappy built-in underlight, the rest is solid steel and the lens can go 1x, 5x, 20x, 100x, 500x, and 900x (which is enough to see blood cells. They’re cool little buggers.) I should build this, and I probably will, but first I need money. And a little more handiness with tools.

Yes, the hack may seem a little boring. But it could be worthy of quite a few mutations.

Posted at 4:20 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by Winphreak

homebrew microscope + half decent webcam + some sort of time lapse software = endless hours of watching various types of bacteria scurry around!

prove me wrong guys, prove me wrong.

Posted at 11:20 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by jesse

yawn. had high expections I guess for halloween. pumkin carving hack, or hack your own costume from common household items, or pumkin launching catapult. something.

Posted at 11:24 pm on Oct 31st, 2005 by wade

Is it me or is H a D becoming crap???

Posted at 12:59 am on Nov 1st, 2005 by yehouza

1) I recently attatched a webcam to a cheap old microscope that I had laying around- results were very fun, and it was super easy to do
2) I would love to see an improvement to this design, remaining cost effective of course, that would change the mirror to a few LEDs, powered by battery- should still stay cheap (led’s cost pennies and battery unit could be harvested from almost anything)

Posted at 8:36 am on Nov 1st, 2005 by Jfalk

cool microscope, might use it for my next science fair! thats amazingly cheap in price!

_-[Happy Halloween]-_
[{william}]

Posted at 7:15 pm on Nov 1st, 2005 by william

#7 “prove me wrong…” you can’t see bacteria live bacteria in a microscope. You have to stain the first, usually Gram staining, and that will kill them.

“But i have seen it done…” yes you have.. but that was in a phase contrast microscope, and that is something difrent.

“But can’t i just hack the phase of the contrast in this microscope…” NO.

Posted at 2:42 am on Nov 2nd, 2005 by anders

The people! Help us! The village school for a class of biology needs a microscope. School very poor. Who has old unnecessary microscope present it please our school. Beforehand thank! Russia, 453100, Bashkortostan, Sterlitamak, Odesskaya, 91-44, Pivtsaev S.V.

Posted at 5:55 am on Nov 10th, 2005 by Pivtsaev

I have a Sony video camera that I inadvertently threw overboard on a dive trip in Fiji. I have kept it because i thought the lenses may be useful sometime…could it be used for something like this?

Posted at 4:53 am on Apr 15th, 2006 by gonedrovin