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Hello, I love Design Metaphysics. This includes making things and thinking about them. The questions I ask myself are What can be made? How it can be made? To which family does a created thing belong? Why does/should a family of things Exist?

Here I am sharing my experience of making a microscope. Helped by people from ARTSCIENCEBLR lab from Shrishti school of Design. Here are some pictures of the microscope I created.

Here are some of the images of Dephnia I shot with the microscope

Process of Making

First we were asked to dismantle a web cam, Unscrew the lens, invert it and stick it back to the circuit board. Then we tested its super magnifying power by bringing the lens close to the computer screen and checking the RGB pixels. We could see the RGB pixels discretely.

Then we soldered 2 wires on a battery holder and an Led with a switch in between. These were the only 2 steps that we included in the instruction. Rest everything we had to make on our own.

It was great that Yashas asked us to make the whole thing from scratch with whatever material we could lay our hands onto in HSBC campus. So I went Junk hunting in my Design and Technology lab and found some toys meant for kindergarten kids. These were primitive geometrical objects like cubes, Cylinders and a dough-nut shape.

We were three people in our group. Initially some people in our group wondered why Yashash's Microscope is inverted? It has the source of light above and the lens below the slide. Thats not how an "actual" microscope is like. So we decided to correct the mistake and make the arrangement the way it is in a conventional microscope, Lens up, slide, then Light source at the bottom.

So we assembled the whole thing to imitate a real microscope and were really excited to plug the web cam into the laptop to see micro organisms. We were finding it extremely difficult to place the slide exactly below the webcam lens because the webcam was inverted and it was obstructing the way. Nor were we able the hold the slide at a stable position. Thats when we realised that putting the cam above the slide was a terrible idea.

So we dismantled the whole thing and started afresh. This time we also made sure that we built a mechanism to move the slide up and down to achieve perfect focus. So we put the slide holder platform on a screw with cardboard nuts that could go up and down when rotated on the screw.

So we completed this thing and prepared slide with Dephnia samples and so the insides of this microorganism.

How to make Dephnia Incubator

fill half a cup with water that has been kept stagnant under the sun for more than 2 days.