Comments on: Cheap compound microscope

By: gonedrovin

gonedrovin — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:53:44 +0000

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?

By: Pivtsaev

Pivtsaev — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:55:09 +0000

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.

By: anders

anders — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:42:09 +0000

#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.

By: william

william — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 03:15:50 +0000

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

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

By: Jfalk

Jfalk — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 16:36:32 +0000

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)

By: yehouza

yehouza — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:59:34 +0000

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

By: wade

wade — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:24:24 +0000

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.

By: jesse

jesse — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 07:20:09 +0000

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.

By: Winphreak

Winphreak — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:20:01 +0000

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.

By: Wim L

Wim L — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:44:06 +0000

cool!

By: jwstolk

jwstolk — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:06:13 +0000

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)

By: Loquax

Loquax — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:43:23 +0000

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.

By: Nate

Nate — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:02:03 +0000

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.

By: null

null — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:43:22 +0000

yawn