GMU:DIY-Microscopy/Nils

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

Model side view
top view
webcam without body and flipped lens

3D Printed Model

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.

Media:Axon_bfb_file_nils.zip

Specimen/Probes collected

rowan berry
spider (used to be 3, one ate the other 2)
Pondwater
sawdust
window cleaner
pigeon feather

In order to get the specific specimen i took al little walk around weimar: for instance the sawdust is from the woodshop at the architectual factulty, the berries are from bushes found at kirschbachtal, the Pondwater is from a swamp area near the Ilm, the window cleaner (no need to describe that...), the pigeon feather waited at the cemetery to get collected, and the spiders i had to chase around in my bath, and i found a horse.