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03-14-2014, 10:02 PM
Foldscope Update: Get a Free Microscope for Your Nifty Project Idea
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Following up on our story from earlier this week (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/50-cent-origami-microscope-for-third-world-diag**stics.html) about new microscopes that cost less than a dollar to produce, the research team behind the project is **w offering free microscopes to citizen-scientists around the world that send in short proposals of what they’re planning to do with them. Offering sub-micron resolution in a package weighing less than ten grams, these microscopes can be boldly taken where ** microscope has been before.
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/foldscope-sample.jpg
The goal is to get 10,000 citizen-scientists to test the microscopes in a variety of settings and to create a “biology/microscopy field manual” using the data gathered by the volunteers.
From the project page:
With support from Moore Foundation, we are currently starting a large scale experiment in hands-on science education called “Ten Thousand Microscope Project.” We intend to enlist 10,000 individuals who would be willing to beta-test Foldscope over the summer and develop single page science experiments, protocols, queries, questions, applications based on using Foldscope in a specific community. We aim to collectively write a crowd-sourced biology microscopy manual with examples collected from scientists, teachers, tinkerers, thinkers, ******s, kids and alike.
Flashback:*50 Cent Origami Microscope for Third-World Diag**stics… (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/50-cent-origami-microscope-for-third-world-diag**stics.html)
Link: Foldscope: Microscopy for everyone (http://www.foldscope.com/#/10ksignup/)
(hat tip: Scope Blog (http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/03/13/free-diy-microscope-kits-to-citizen-scientists-with-inspiring-project-ideas/))
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http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Foldscope.jpg
Following up on our story from earlier this week (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/50-cent-origami-microscope-for-third-world-diag**stics.html) about new microscopes that cost less than a dollar to produce, the research team behind the project is **w offering free microscopes to citizen-scientists around the world that send in short proposals of what they’re planning to do with them. Offering sub-micron resolution in a package weighing less than ten grams, these microscopes can be boldly taken where ** microscope has been before.
http://cdn.medgadget.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/foldscope-sample.jpg
The goal is to get 10,000 citizen-scientists to test the microscopes in a variety of settings and to create a “biology/microscopy field manual” using the data gathered by the volunteers.
From the project page:
With support from Moore Foundation, we are currently starting a large scale experiment in hands-on science education called “Ten Thousand Microscope Project.” We intend to enlist 10,000 individuals who would be willing to beta-test Foldscope over the summer and develop single page science experiments, protocols, queries, questions, applications based on using Foldscope in a specific community. We aim to collectively write a crowd-sourced biology microscopy manual with examples collected from scientists, teachers, tinkerers, thinkers, ******s, kids and alike.
Flashback:*50 Cent Origami Microscope for Third-World Diag**stics… (http://www.medgadget.com/2014/03/50-cent-origami-microscope-for-third-world-diag**stics.html)
Link: Foldscope: Microscopy for everyone (http://www.foldscope.com/#/10ksignup/)
(hat tip: Scope Blog (http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/03/13/free-diy-microscope-kits-to-citizen-scientists-with-inspiring-project-ideas/))
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