You can use your 3D printer to make nice coverslip wells for preparing thick specimens like insects and sand grains. Design and download a printable model of the spacer ring here.
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High-end lab instrument from an old hard drive
Crashed hard drives don’t have to end their days on the dumpster. Here’s my way of re-purposing any hard drive with a high-end spindle motor as a so-called coverslip ringing table.
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Dark-field filter for low-cost microscopes
What a difference a 3D printed dark-field filter makes! Here’s how I dramatically altered the light quality of a low-end microscope with a very simple 3D printed part.
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Insect focusing
Get razor sharp macro shots with a system camera and a couple of gadgets. The tehcnique is called focus stacking.