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An interesting look at everyday things.
I bought a cheap USB powered Microscope and then started exploring. Some of the images were very unexpected so I thought I would post a few.
2015
Macro Holga photo of some of the collections at the St. Louis Science Center.
The collections are remnants of when the museum started at a Natural History and Science Museum. They are now stored in a non-public site and used occasionally for displays.
Phase contrast microscopy is a technically fairly easy trick to increase the contrast of the image. It was invented by a Dutch guy, Frits Zernike, who earned a Nobel prize for it. Funny, because another Dutch guy, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, invented the microscope! I remain to this day clueless on how to reproduce the rings in bricks... So no rings, but it does slide!
The last detail I want to show you is the power switch on the back. I just had to have a tumbler switch for the microscope, one that had to be functional! This was something that gave me quite a headache from figuring out how... Beside the switch is the power inlet, a redundancy of course, because unlike its real-life counterparts, this microscope is battery powered!
This microscope is equipped with six objectives; 2x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x and 63x. Combined with the 10-fold magnifying oculars, the user can switch between a 20-, 40-, 100-, 200-, 400- and 630-fold magnification. After a few horribly complicated attempts, I stumbled on a very simple, but very robust way of turning the objectives and let them twist exactly in the light path so that it shines through the selected objective!
11.6.2010, Microscope Night
Machine Project artist in residency at Hammer Museum.
Photo by Marianne Williams.
This microscope is equipped with six objectives; 2x, 4x, 10x, 20x, 40x and 63x. Combined with the 10-fold magnifying oculars, the user can switch between a 20-, 40-, 100-, 200-, 400- and 630-fold magnification. After a few horribly complicated attempts, I stumbled on a very simple, but very robust way of turning the objectives and let them twist exactly in the light path so that it shines through the selected objective!
Zurich, 2011
The Climate-KIC Summer Journey - a five-week intensive course focused on climate innovation, during which participants attend classes across Europe.
Climate-KIC is a European network, consisting of dynamic companies, the best academic institutions and the public sector. Integrating education, entrepreneurship and innovation, Climate-KIC produces a creative transformation of knowledge and ideas into economically viable products and services that help mitigate climate change.
As one of the EU’s three Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) designated in 2010 by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), it is Climate-KIC’s core purpose is to create opportunities for innovators to address climate change and shape the world’s next economy.