My greetings to all. This is my first post after attending the workshop at IIT Bombay, which was exploratory,educating and fun filled as well. My mother was cutting these vegetables when she found out the worm in one of them. I checked it under my new foldscope in the process damaging it a bit. The…
Hello everyone! It was a great experience at the foldscope workshop and quite great to get to know about such a device. I call it as ATM (Any-Time Microscope). The specimen observed is that of mosquito larva (probably Aedes) that I picked up from plant pots at home and placed in a cavity…
This leaf I picked up on the way home today
Bee sting in the hand
In Copenhagen, I got a chance to go to dinner at Dr Dino Ott’s – a physicist trained at Niels Bohr Institute, an old visiting student and a dear friend. His wife Ana and son joined dinner. Dino visited the lab several years ago when we were building/designing foldscope; and engaged in many parts of…
Staying healthy is important
Health has been on my mind a lot recently. Self-care, in particular. What do I really need to be and stay healthy? I thought about this as I was lying pretty much in bed all day last week as I was sick with infections. Obviously, I need air to breathe. I need clean water to drink…
Hello, I have taken this video while observing the sample of muddy water.I am student from KV IIT ,Mumbai,India.I attended the DPT India Workshop.
Hello, I found this organism from a sample of muddy water.This is first foldscope post.I am a student of KV IIT,Powai,Mumbai,India.I attended DBT India Workshop.
Micro & Macroscopic view of Tabernaemontana divaricata
Hi all, Here is the Macroscopic picture of (Tabernaemontana divaricata) Nandhivardanam flowers, plant and Microscopic picture of flower petal.
Foldscoping in Copenhagen – part 2
I am spending two days in Copenhagen – and it’s such a wonderful feeling to see nature integrated in the city. I don’t have to go too far to find natural ecosystems that are not perturbed. Right outside the house; I found a little pond; and here is a Facebook live video of the activity….
BMC Municipal Urdu school Foldscope workshop, Mumbai.
I had been in Mumbai for a few days and was eager to get started with a series of Foldscope workshops we (DBT, Foldscope Instruments, IITB, Ruia college – amongst others) had been planning in Mumbai. Municipal (BMC) schools are spread across the city, and we choose a majority Urdu speaking school with kids ranging…
Foldscoping in Copenhagen ponds
My experience biking and Foldscoping around Copenhagen – watch the video till the end for big surprises. Please tag all the organisms you see here.. Cheers Manu
A bit of peacock feather- first experience
Testing my new foldscope!
Hello Everyone, So just day before yesterday I received my new Foldscope kit! 😀 and I couldn’t wait to make a bunch of posts. This was my first observation with my new Foldscope. It’s the permanent slide that came with the kit I collected a Riccia sample from IIT Bombay during the…
After rains insects
Hello! This observation is of last year..but as similar insects are started to arrive at home again so couldn’t stop from being posted. This is how they attack my home in bulk.And now under foldscope: Trying not to kill them by closing the windows and shooing away by switching off the lights. They become a…
#Dharavi diary foldscope
Workshop
At last, I am able to be in touch with you foldscopists! All this, after the Mumbai flood of 29 August! Thanks Deepak Modi for inviting us, cubists, to the IIT Foldscope mela. The Mumbai flood made us all (four cubists from two Mumbai colleges and a few of us) stay back at the Homi…
Orchid
Hello, I took a petal from an orchid and sliced it into fine pieces. I observed it under my foldscope. In my early attempt I was not able to get any satisfactory result. But I tried and worked on it and finally got something fruitful. This is my first foldscope upload and I am looking…
Mosquito’s body through foldscope 2.0
Hi this is Varun from chennai, India I’m 14years old and I’m studying in the 10th grade, this is the mosquito’s body through the foldscope v2.0. In another mosquito I saw a blue line kind of thing I thought it is blood and may I know what are those black spots, if anyone knows what…
Tabernaemontana divaricata Foldscope view
Foldscope view of Tabernaemontana divaricata flower which was commonly known as Nandivardham in South India. I used the single petal of Nandivardanam flower, I focoused it biy I have not seen anything in Flodscope in my first trail . In my second trail I got Amazing things in it. I have learnt a lesson through…
Manu Prakash demonstrating time lapse with foldscope
The video presents Manu Prakash demonstrating how to capture time-lapse using foldscope and a smartphone. The audio is clear enough to understand the trick used. The outcome of the activity is presented in this video posted by Manu Prakash:
Rose pollen
Hi! These pictures were captured really long back..sorry for not posting earlier. Wanted to contribute in Lakshmi sir’s pollen data base. Macro picture of flower: Dry pollen: Petal: Happy Foldscoping~
Wild Tetrahymena
Hi guys! First post with new foldscope. The microbe is a common wild type Tetrahymena from onion root soil sample. We learnt about this organism in theory about its self splicing RNA mechanism and getting to see the organism visually was just a great experience. The resolution and stability in capturing video is even more…
Moss observations with a foldscope
It was my first experience of making a foldscope and seeing somethings using the foldscope, at a workshop at IITB on 29th August. Myself alongwith Arunan, Nagarjuna, Rafikh (CUBE Lab, @HBCSE, TIFR) participated in the workshop. With quite a bit of maneuvering and dexterity, we managed to observe something that excited us watching through the…
Wonderful moment in Foldscope teachers workshop at IITB
Jim and I, along with DBT staff scientists, IITB, Ruia college and Dharavi Diary volunteers have been running workshops for teachers and IITB students. In continuation, today we a ran workshop at IITB campus with the focus of sharing experience of teachers. We started with a wonderful series of introductions and journeys that many teachers…
My First Experience
Today I had an opportunity to explore the Foldscope at IIT Mumbai. What we saw was amazing. I transparent worm from the water sample which was collected from the campus. The gut was clearly visible with the feed inside. Also, after coming home i announced that i have brought a microscope at home. All were…
FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH FOLDSCOPE !!
Happy to become a part of this community starting from today ! I attended a workshop held today at IIT Bombay, India. It was a great experience to learn about Foldscope from Prof. Manu Prakash and several other teachers and students from India who have been using Foldscope. The experiences shared by all the teachers were…
My beginning with foldscope
You know there are days in our life we want to live again and again throughout our life! I have to say today was that kind of day. Well, I will surely live these moment again and again in my own little ways. It was such a great opportunity for students like us. For me,…
Looking for Gypsy Moth Eggs
We found more than one egg case inside a screened in porch. I scraped some of one onto a slide to see what it looked like. I was surprised by all of the straight, sharp lines.