There's a lens in the pouch — and a hole to indicate where it should go. Once assembled the Foldscope is the size of a bookmark. It's small enough to fit in a pocket and can magnify up to 140 times.

He designed a 3D-printed microscope lens adapter that you can find on Thingiverse. Recently, [Micael Widell] tried it out with a microscope lens and you can see the results in the video below.

The team started experimenting with 3D-printed lenses and found it was possible to print quality microscope lenses using a photopolymerizing clear resin on a Mars 3 Pro printer. In developing the ...

The iMicro Q3p changes all of that. Barely bigger than a contact lens, it’s a fingertip accessory which claims to turn any smartphone into a 1200x microscope – simply by sticking to the camera.

Thanks to [noq2]’s teardown of a Wild Heerbrugg model M8 stereo microscope, we get to do exactly that. His M8 is from the mid-1970s, but it is in mint condition and doesn’t look like it’s ...

That drop is then baked on the slide at 70ºC (158ºF), causing it to harden into a flat disc that will serve as the base of the lens. Another drop of the gel is then placed on that base, and the ...

Well, better than a conventional microscope, as you might expect, since I am writing about their work. But, only by a factor of just over two (~100nm), which, is, in some ways, quite disappointing.

The UH lens is not the first stick-on smartphone microscope lens, with a low-magnification polymer lens known as the "Micro Phone Lens" launching via Kickstarter in 2013.

Scientists at UCLA have created a lens-free microscope that relies on a silicon chip found in smartphones and digital cameras. You can’t use it to snap a selfie, but it could help scientists ...

University of Washington. "Lens turns any smartphone into a portable microscope." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 15 April 2014. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 04 / 140415133830.htm>.

Researchers have created an optical lens that can be placed on an inexpensive smartphone to magnify images by a magnitude of 120, all for just 3 cents a lens.