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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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

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.

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.

Researchers at the University of Houston 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.