[Health] Fwd: [IAEP] Cheap ($300) fluorescent microscopes for developing world

[Edward Cherlin]

Mary Lou Jepsen made a clip-on set of lenses that turn an XO into a
microscope. She used it to take photomicrographs of her screens for
the XO-1 for a published paper. It's roughly of the optical complexity
of the $1 pairs of glasses at the dollar stores, but can be cast as a
single piece. Let's ask her.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 23:08, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Samuel Klein <sj at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Antonio Battro mentioned to me the other day that LAMAP in France is
>> closer to having super-cheap USB microscopes small enough to be packed
>> away with an XO.
>>
>> Antonio, when there is something to publicize about that effort, you
>> have a willing and waiting audience!
>>
>> SJ
>>
>
> Not a USB microscope, but I was surprised to find this $4.50 plastic
> analog microscope (I paid $7 at Borders book store).
> http://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Microscope-Mirror-Ilumination-Moving/dp/B003UMGZ3Q
> Retrofit a USB camera, and it might just work :-)
>
> Cheek epithelial cells show up nicely.
>
> cheers,
> Sameer
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>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Beth Santos <beth at waveplace.org> wrote:
>>> Interesting.
>>>
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>>> Date: 2010/8/11
>>> Subject: [IAEP] Cheap ($300) fluorescent microscopes for developing world
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