Backyard Biotech: Life under the microscope
Looking at prepared slides was a great way to get acquainted with the new-to-us OMAX microscope. Prepared slides catapulted us into a world we knew existed, but had never [...]
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Backyard Biotech: Prepared Slides FirstLook
The best way for us to learn how to use the new-to-us Omax microscope, and to understand what we are seeing, is to take it one step at a time, one aspect at a time. And so, [...]
EXO Labs On UNITRON
The UNITRON inverted microscope is pretty cool in and of itself. When paired with the EXO Labs Camera (ELC), this vintage instrument went from old-school analog to [...]
Vintage Inverted Microscope
Microscopes and telescopes are amazing devices because they can “transport” us to other worlds at the speed of light. This is why we constantly scour [...]
EXO Labs: Camera Stand
We don’t collect rocks, but we do have a large rock collection, and a rather well-organized one at that. Here are some of the boxes from the collection. They are [...]
EXO Labs: Focus Custom Case
As most readers know, we love to take our gear out into the wild. When we first saw the Exo Labs’ Focus camera kit, we recognized that it was a very cool piece of [...]
EXO Labs camera: FirstUse
We posted a FirstLook of the Exo Labs’ Focus camera kit for the iPad last November. Exo Labs conceived the camera to “… engage students and inspire [...]
EXO Labs: iPad Microscope/Telescope camera
The great thing about instruments like microscopse and telescopes is that they extend our senses, open up new worlds, and let us explore right from our chair. The big [...]
Otterbox iPhone lens case
We are always looking for accessories which will enable us to extend what we can do with the iPhone 4. Lens attachments for the phone’s 5-megapixel camera are such an [...]
Nixie Tubes
The photo of the Digital Readout unit from our Craigslist purchase got the emails flowing. Many of you were eager to share your stories of nixie tube projects. [...]
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