Old Microscope gets USB Camera Upgrade and LED Light
A while ago, my daughter asked me whether I can show her the microscopic creatures that live in puddle water. Looking at these tiny organisms is exciting! And so I got an old, used microscope, and for a better viewing experience, I gave it a camera that I salvaged from a broken laptop and converted to USB.
Follow me on my little adventure of turning an old microscope into an easy to use USB microscope!
Project on hackaday.io:
https://hackaday.io/project/193904-us...
00:00 Intro: The tiny world around us
00:40 A very old Microscope
02:27 Converting a Laptop internal Webcam to USB
05:50 Adding LED Light
07:16 First Tests
08:40 Tardigrade!! And other exciting creatures in wet moss