To all the veteran foldscopers this may sound like nothing, but I am sure excited to present this video to you: https://youtu.be/6UOBy8ztLJQ It was hard work. My lens was dirty, and the slides were scratched up, despite my best efforts. Then thanks to Laksiyer and EzekielJakub, who suggested phase contrast, I tilted the foldscope. Lo and…
My first experience with Foldscope at ICGEB, Delhi and NCMR_NCCS, Pune
I am a microbiologist and can very well understand the importance of microscope in my day-to-day research. I read about Foldscope somewhere is 2015 and since then I was keen to have this frugal microscope. Last year DBT, India invited proposal to use Foldscope in various activities, including research. I reacted promptly and submitted my…
Demonstration photo taken at DBT Foldscope Orientation workshop
Dr. Jigna G. Tank, UGC-CAS Department of Biosciences, Saurashtra University, Rajkot Demonstration photos taken at DBT Foldscope Orientation workshop
A simple hack for reflection/epi-illumination using the foldscope
I have been wanting to post on this for long. There is a very simple way to achieve reflection/epi-illumination microscopy in the new foldscope. For this, I use a simple LED hack that was described by Marie. See https://microcosmos.foldscope.com/?p=13486. This LED unit can now be inserted from the side as seen in this video. The video…
This is the first picture taken from my foldscope given in DBT -workshop conducted at ICGEB
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DBT-Prakash Lab Orintaion Workshope on the use of Foldscope -ICGEB New Delhi
மத்திய அரசின் அறிவியல் கல்வி நிறுவனமாக DBT பிரகாஷ் லேப் உடன் இணைந்து ICGEB புது டெல்லியில் இரண்டு நாள் நாடுதழுவிய பயிற்சி முகாமை கடந்து 16,17 ஆகிய தேதிகளில் நடத்தியது. இந்த பயிற்சி முகாமில் என்னை பயிற்சியாளராக அழைத்தமைக்கு DBTக்கும் விஞ்ஞானி மனுபிரகாஷ் அவர்களுக்கும் என்னுடைய நன்றியை தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன். டில்லியில் என்னை முழுமையாக கவனித்துக்கொண்ட விஞ்ஞானி சாம் என்ற ஆரோகக்கியசாமி அவர்களுக்கும் என் நன்றியை தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கிறேன். இந்த நிகழ்ச்சி என்பது அறிவியல் வரலாற்றில் மிக மிக…
Fun time with fibres and other things
From the clothes we wear to the paper on which we write, these things are made of fibres. Fibres of polysaccharides. Just how amazing these look under a foldscope… Paper may look smooth and uniform as viewed from the naked eye, but microscopically a different story is seen. Cotton fibres seen through…
Foldscope: First trial
Today we started exploring the Foldscope, and we started by observing Cucurbita b.w. slide and we were amazed by the performance of the simplistic and efficient Foldscope. https://sites.google.com/view/ceglab/home
Hi this is Dr Balu From JJM Medical College , Davangere,Karnataka ,India. Sharing pictures of foldscoe demo for medical students
This is photo of cyclope which used to cause guinea worm disease which is eradicated from India. Our students were amazed by the picture quality taken by foldscope. They will be using for community education on key diseases in coming months in rural areas .
ASSETT and Foldscope: A marriage made in microcosmos heaven
The past 6 weeks or so I have been tinkering with Tetrahymenas thanks to the wonderful ASSETT program run by Cornell University. ASSETT or Advancing Secondary Science Education through Tetrahymena is an NIH funded program that provides modular science education material for schools, using Tetrahymena as a model system. Each module is well designed keeping the…
Hematologia
He estado estudiando la morfología y las patologías de los eritrocitos en Medicina Veterinaria. Pero he tenido dificultades en cuanto al enfoque por lo que es una célula muy pequeña, mas sin embargo hare lo posible dar a conocer mis resultados.
Mosquito Claw
Like many other users a mosquito was annoying me, I killed her and viewed her anatomy under my foldscope. After tweeting the focusing I finally managed to get a clear picture of her leg, wing, and most interestingly her foot pad. As you can see in the image mosquitoes have claws. How cool is that?…
Captured rat skin section by Foldscope
I was really very anxious to see my histology slides after attending the Foldscope workshop organised in ICGEB by DBT on 16/04/2018. I am happy as I could focus the section with Foldscope and mobile, which I couldn’t do in the workshop. pressing the sample stage folds in mobile phone view, section get nicely focused….
Getting the best out of a waste product
About some weeks ago while again trying to observe combustion, the plastic that held the lens got molten and the lens popped out. I am quite grateful that Laks sir sent me another foldscope and also that he sent me polarizing filters. To obtain better images I stuck a small piece of filter on my…
Red hair? or parts of reproduction?
So, this time I am in a village area surrounded but trees, insects etc. I wandered arundel searching for a good thing to discover the wonders of. I found a fallen flower with a interesting looking stigma.so, I whipped out my foldscope. (Sorry, can’t focus better) BTW my stained blood pt 2 is due in…
A long journey to explore WATER – BACTERIA
I got in touch with the foldscope team last year, to develop some workshops within the program I was implementing for work. “Innovation with purpose”. The program consists on implementing an innovative technology “plasma water sanitation system” to guarantee access to secure and potable water for vulnerable people. Our vision is to connect advanced technology…
Dancing Diatom @ICGEB, Delhi
Observed during DBT Foldscope workshop… Dancing Diatom Also from same sample, pirouetting mystery-bug-aggregate
Diversity that boggles our minds – polychaete worms
Photo: “A variety of marine worms”: plate from Das Meer by M.J. Schleiden (1804–1881). In 15 minutes of looking at the same rock I collected on the beach, I found more than 12 different species of polychaete worms. Some of them were swimmers; wriggling in the water column. Some of them had fans, others appendages…
Happy Birthday, Mr. Carl Zeiss!
On September 11, 2016 the town of Jena, Germany, celebrated the 200th birthday of Mr. Carl Zeiss. I am sharing here some impressions from the personal life of Mr. Carl Zeiss – one of the great pioneers of microscopy – as told through the events of his 200th birthday celebration. Carl Zeiss Jena was originally…
Bryozoa – finally got a living Membranipora under a foldscope – part 3
After trying several different tricks; finally figured out how to mount these delicate creatures on a glass slide. Offcourse, they are perturbed – they run back inside the shell.. so this one is living inside the shell. None the less; you can see the seat and the tentacles all folded to fit inside the tiny…
Bryozoa saga continued – part 2
If you saw my previous post; I am stuck looking at billions of sargassum leaves on a beach – and Bryozoa covering almost all of them. See here. So I started poking in the water in hope of catching some fresh macroalgae to show up.. and after some adventures – did get some on my…
A floating partnership – Bryozoa – Akumal, México
As humans, we all value a piece of land to call home. It’s not so different sometimes in the ocean. Many invertebrates would colonize just about any surface you can find in the open waters. And Bryozoa are masters of colonizing just about anything.. even if it’s a floating algae. I am on a peninsula…
How aperture affects image quality
When I first heard about Foldscope from a friend in 2016 I became curious. Until my Foldscope arrived in early 2018 I started experimenting with ball lens microscopes myself. Please see a photo of some of my models. When I first used my new Foldscope, I was impressed with the good image quality. I attribute…
Foldscope Workshops in Haiti
Here are photos from a workshop conducted in March of 2018, which was held in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The students (and educators) at SAKALA (http://www.sakala-haiti.org), the community center established by Daniel Tillias for children who live in the Cite Soleil neighborhood, were fascinated by their ability to investigate the extraordinary world that appeared through…
தஞ்சாவூரான் பூண்டு அல்லது ரயில் பூண்டின் மகரந்தம்!
தமிழ்நாடு அறிவியல் இயக்கத்தின் மடிப்பு நுண்ணோக்கி பயிற்சியும்…. எங்கள் பள்ளி மாணவர்களின் ரயில் பூண்டின்(தஞ்சாவூரான் பூண்டு) மகரந்தத்தூள் அறியும் முயற்சியும்…. கடந்த 8.4.2018 ஞாயிறன்று தமிழ்நாடு அறிவியல் இயக்கத்தின் மடிப்பு நுண்ணோக்கி பயிற்சி மன்னார்குடியில் நடைபெற்றது. இப்பயிற்சியை மதுரையைச் சேர்ந்த மொ.பாண்டியராஜன் அவர்கள் மிகுந்த ஆர்வத்துடன் வழங்கினார். இப்பயிற்சியும், பயிற்சியின்போது வழங்கப்பட்ட ஒரு மடிப்பு நுண்ணோக்கியும் மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருந்தது. இந்தப் பயிற்சியின் தகவல்களை மாணவர்களிடம் கூறி அவர்களுக்கு மடிப்பு நுண்ணோக்கியை கையாளும் விதம் பற்றிக்…
Leeuwenhoek’s Microscope
Here are some pictures from the Optical Museum Jena, Germany, of the historical Leeuwenhoek Microscope. Please enjoy. The pictures were taken on the 200th birthday of Mr. Carl Zeiss, the founder of the microscope company Carl Zeiss Jena. Leeuwenhoek’s single lens model was the leading microscope of its time until Mr. Zeiss succeeded to reach…
Foldscope Project- D,M,S
These are pictures of a leaf through the lens of a foldscope. We can see the veins of the leaf as well as the Lamina. As you can see the leaf is very bright, we used a flashlight to be able to see the details of the leaf.
First time using a foldscope: Amazing!!
Foldscope Discoveries Here in Squamish, BC at Coast Mountain Academy, we found charcoal from the fire pit. When we put a sample in our foldscope, we thought it looked very beautiful. Despite nothing moving around, it was a great first discovery. We look forward to using the Foldscope more to discover new things and change…