Today we built our first foldscope, and here are some of the first pictures:


 Pollen from a flower:


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 A leaf


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 An ant’s antenna
 
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 Tomorrow, S. Krishnaswamy will lead us in a session at
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 The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai
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 , where we will be training school teachers to build and operate foldscopes.

My first foldscope pictures

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