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 Before start observing microcosmos, I built this simple and very cheap adapter. I’m using it to link foldscope on my Raspberry Camera, in order to acquire videos and picture.
 
 
 
 The advantages are:

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 Better stability, and comfort (compared to smartphone solution)
 
 
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 Better quality (RasPI Cam compared to others same price webcams)
 
 
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 RasPI Camera has many adjustable parameters (contrast, fps, brightness etc.)
 
 
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 Simple to build and to use
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 To build this adapter, I simply took a thin piece of wood and holed it with a 10mm drill. Then I pasted the “magnetic strip” (which connect foldscope with smartphone) with vinyl glue. After 24 hours I put the camera into the hole (the sides of camera are longer than 10mm, so the cam is stable). The following picture show the adapter and final result:
 
 




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 Sorry for my english, this is my first “serious” post in a foreign language! For italian Foldscope users I posted a longer and more complete article on my blog:
 
 
 <a href="http://tobpic.altervista.org/foldscope-raspberry-camera-a-new-adapter/#more-3597" target="_blank">
 Raspberry to Foldscope Adapter
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 And that’s a video!

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