Tom HodsonTook the plunge and started printing parts for an Open Flexure Microscope! https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/ Ordered the parts from here https://labcrafter.co.uk/products/openflexure-microscope
Does anyone have ideas for where I can go to learn some basic microscopy techniques like sample preparation? Also any fun mods I can do to this microscope once its built. Maybe an array of LEDs with well calibrated spectra to do some kind of basic multispectral imaging?
The print worked! On to the next plate! Hopefully I have some kind of contrasting colour about here somewhere…
Second plate done! I’m not sure they’re my favourite colours but I’ve put myself on filament buying embargo until the backlog is cleared.
Disaster! I had 4 o-rings in the kit and three axes to get them on. But I broke two 😭 so no microscope for me until I can get more.
Ok today I regrouped, I used an elastic band as a temporary measure. Now I just need to find my rpi4…
My partner and I have COVID this week, so all social engagements are cancelled and that means a project weekend!
I took the oppotunity to make some more progress on this microscope. I had stalled after realising that I had a huge hair directly on the image sensor! And double stalled because I've now lost the ball end allen key you need to unscrew the optics module because it's a bit of an angle. Anyway though the magic of using a flat head screwdriver that kind fits I managed to get the optics module off, blow the hair out, put it back togther and have another go.
As is traditional, the first thing I looked at was that little layer of single cells you can peel out from between two layers of an onion.
David Honess@Tomhodson sugar and or salt are pretty good too!