Bay Area Maker Faire: May 19-20, 2007, San Mateo Fairgrounds

Maker Faire Bay Area 2007
Plankton Microscope

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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Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Science

Tags: microscope web+camera security+camera

About the Maker(s)

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.

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