One hitch – the CCD sensor needs a bunch of tiny lenses, and by tiny we mean six to eight microns. Red blood cells are just that size, and they’re lens shaped.

Here’s an oldie but a goodie. [RunnerPack] stumbled upon an article from 2001 about building a stereo microscope from a pair of binoculars and a camera lens. With a ring light attached to the… ...

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 ...

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.

Researchers in Australia have invented a new kind of optical lens that could be combined with a smartphone camera to create a microscope for diagnosing skin cancer or identifying agricultural pests.

Eleven of van Leeuwenhoek's microscopes have survived, but since he encased his lenses between two metal plates secured with rivets, with just one tiny hole about half a millimeter in diameter ...

Goats and Soda Fold paper. Insert lens. This $2 microscope changes how kids see the world November 24, 20248:50 AM ET By Kamala Thiagarajan ...

First flat lens for immersion microscope provides alternative to centuries-old technique Metasurface could help build better microscopes Date: May 16, 2017 Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School ...