All via an 80¢ piezo buzzer? Madness. Gold atoms in a crystal. This apparent wizardry is called a scanning tunneling microscope which takes advantage of quantum tunneling. The device brings a ...

Perhaps the best known low-cost DIY instrument to date is the Foldscope, an optical microscope easily assembled out of a sheet of paper and a lens. It comes as a kit, which includes magnets so ...

This is your microscope. How easy was that ... I’d really love to see what you guys can magnify with your DIY microscopes. So please, send me photos and videos. So far, because this is Gross ...

[Ben Krasnow] has recently completed a home-built scanning electron microscope and has posted a video of it in action on his blog. The build itself was done quite creatively using many off-the ...

Breaking Taps DIY Scanning Laser Microscope Posted: November 26, 2024 | Last updated: March 5, 2025 I built a 3D printed, scanning laser confocal microscope so I could collect 3D surface topology ...

DIY instructions to turn your own cellphone into a microscope are below. Image: Standard microscope images (top row) compared to a iPhone microscope images (bottom row). Sickle-cell anemia blood ...

A creative science fan made a DIY microscope using an old phone and a glue stick. Footage shows the man demonstrating how to adjust the homemade science experiment tool in his home in Heilongjiang ...

An engineer at Stanford University has created a DIY microscope, called the Foldscope, that is fashioned out of a single piece of printed-and-folded A4 paper, origami-style. This paper-based ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday ... But back in the 18th century, the microscope was the hottest party trick in town. Back in those days, English intellectuals would ...

A hacked DIY microscope developed by a PhD student has fascinated research scientists who say his design can equal the process of current diagnosis of serious illnesses but at a fraction of the cost.