GMU:DIY-Microscopy/Nils

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Miroscopy stage construction

 

The aproach was to build a cylinder form for the microscope in order to pick up the shape of the petridish. two srews at each side of the cylinder are added to manually lift and lower the plate with the camera (which is insider of the cylinder).

3D Model

   

You can download the .stl files of the plate and the plain cylinder

Stage construction cardboard model

3D Printed Model

File:3D Model rapman01.jpg

This Model was printed with a Rapman 3.1 within 4h 37min. i used sketchup to create the needed .stl file and then used netfabb to check it. Last step was to create a .bfb file (for Rapman) via Axon (Windows only) likewise you could use Skeinforge.