Here is an economical way to experiment with light, color, and optics. You get one Red LED light source, one Green LED light source, and one Blue LED light source. The three LEDs can be controlled ...

This eBay item, sold under different names, is a very useful accessory for electronics hobbyists. The gizmo is infact a battery-powered pocket microscope with two white light emitting diodes for ...

This relatively simple circuit uses a 6-V DC supply with a PWM current-source configuration to provide efficient, adjustable dimming of a white LED over a wide range, needed to accommodate the unique ...

Researchers have created the world’s smallest silicon LED and holographic microscope that opens up a wide range of potential applications, including turning your smartphone camera into a portable, ...

A group of young students has built a high-resolution microscope solely out of LEGO pieces and a smartphone lens. The fully functional, high-resolution microscope with capabilities close to a modern ...

The mechanism of a confocal laser scanning microscope is to irradiate an object with a laser beam emitted from a light source, scan the entire object in two directions, the X-axis and the Y-axis, and ...

German scientists have built a high resolution microscope out of Lego parts and components salvaged from a mobile phone, according to a recent paper published in The Biophysicist. They found that ...

Modern understanding of technology recognizes miniaturized integration as a pivotal advance that facilitates low-cost production and typically leads to improved performance and unanticipated ...

Leica Microsystems launches the upright microscopes Leica DM4 B and Leica DM6 B for life science research and clinical applications. The two systems succeed the Leica DM4000 B, Leica DM5000 B, Leica ...