Troubleshoot Circuitry with DIY Magnified Thermal Imaging
Circuit parts are getting smaller, but our eyes and fingers can only troubleshoot so much. Find the issue with a thermal camera and a special lense.
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See What Happens When You Sharpen a Knife Under a Microscope
Everyone knows that a dull blade is no good. But do you know what a knife actually looks like up close as it’s being sharpened?
Zen and the Art of Microscope Maintenance
One man’s quest to restore a busted scanning electron microscope.
Origami Microscope for Just 50 Cents
The Foldscope is a disposable paper microscope that uses tiny spherical lenses. And it costs 50 cents.
Building a Low-Cost Nanoscope with Lego and Makeblock
Students at a workshop built a sub-$500 atomic force microcope out of Lego, Makeblock, 3D-printed parts, and Arduinos.
Open-Source Microscope Illuminator
Stephen Richardson of Tangent Audio built the AZIZ light ring for his Bausch & Lomb stereo microscope. AZIZ is an LED microscope illuminator that I designed and built from scratch. It is designed around a Texas Instruments TLC59116 constant-current PWM LED driver chip, and an Atmel ATTiny1634 AZIZ has 64 LEDs, half super-bright and half […]
A Boy and His Atom: The World’s Smallest Movie
The world’s smallest movie was produced by a team of IBM nanophysicists. The animation is made from 242 stop-frames, and is 60 seconds long, with each frame measuring 1/20,000th the width of a human hair!
