A low-cost do-it-yourself microscope kit for hands-on science education

Publishing date: 2018-10-01

Published on: SPIE Digital Library

summary: A low cost microscope kit “the other way round”: instead of requiring the user to peer through eye-pieces, this design aligns a series of lenses around a sample plane and shines light through the centre to project the greatly magnified image onto a piece of paper that can be comfortably observed with the naked eye. Great for simplicity, flexibility and for demonstrations to larger audiences such as outreach projects or classrooms.

authors: Zoe Grier, Maria Francesca Soddu, Naomi Kenyatta, Sharlene AgyeiOdame, Joshua Sanders, Latasha Wright, Francesca Anselmi,

link to paper: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/10741/107410K/A-low-cost-do-it-yourself-microscope-kit-for-hands/10.1117/12.2320655.pdf

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