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The Institute of Making and the London Centre for Nanotechnology have teamed up with Tsinghua University and Peking University to take on the challenge of developing a new type of low-cost scanning probe microscope with the power to capture images of the nano world.
LEGO2NANO is an international student project making real science accessible to young people, by developing low cost scientific equipment for schools and beyond.
Over the last three years of the summer school in Beijing, international and interdisciplinary teams of university students have developed their Open AFM—an open-source atomic force microscope assembled from cheap, off-the-shelf electronic components, Arduino, Lego and 3D printable /laser cut parts.
Large orange Pennate Diatom magnified 400x. Collected from the small patch of orange mud at the Weep Site, near Drawbridge, in the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Reserve. In August, this Diatom was the dominant species of the Weep stream, but by early winter, it had been almost completely replaced by a smaller, needle-like Diatom called Cylindorthecia.
Source: E. C. Bolles Collection of Microscope Slides, San Diego Natural History Museum.
Image id: SDNHM_Microscope_Slides_009
The four reddish items to the left are the hearts of a mosquito larvae taken with my Bausch and Lomb microscope.
Provisionally I am calling this as Chrysis impressa.
These are some test shots with the new Hi-Chrome Camera and GMZ microscope. I think the new kit will prove immensely useful for identifying these extremely challenging wasps. The series of shots here cover some of the key characters one has to look at. Normally one needs to match five or more out of seven characters to approach confidence in one's determination.
Being able to compare images will make this challenging task a little easier (hopefully).