Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Plankton Microscope

Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Science

Tags: microscope web+camera security+camera


Watch plankton swim with a lensless microscope made from a clever hack of a web or security camera. Take home a Rotifer sample for your own hacked microscopecam!

Web site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhr4AHhgOkQ

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About the Maker(s)

Tom Zimmerman
Tom Zimmerman is an inventor, educator and researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center who loves gadgets, LEDs, synthesizers and hooking people up to computers.
http://domino.research.ibm.com/odis/odis.nsf/pages/profile.zimmerman.html