Assignments

• Make a separate About Page, and share it in #introductions
• Document which hardware you made/unmade.
• Make a Final Project Page, start writing down ideas for a possible final Project.

Hardware construction/deconstruction

FOLDSCOPE

About Foldscope:
▼TED talk
https://www.ted.com/talks/manu_prakash_a_50_cent_microscope_that_folds_like_origami

▼website
https://www.foldscope.com/

Assembly

Took me 25 minutes.

Test

Skeletal muscle l.s. (骨格筋の断面)

(I pressed the iPhone camera onto the lens and took this photo.)

ref. Same sample taken with another digital microscope（SANWA SUPPLY LPE-06BK）

PCR

PTC-150 Minicycler, MJ Research
▼detail
http://www.medwow.com/med/pcr/mj-research/ptc-150-minicycler/41154.model-spec

Pocket PCR
▼website
https://gaudi.ch/PocketPCR/

mini PCR
▼website
https://www.minipcr.com/products/minipcr/

Deassembly(PTC-150)

Assembly(Pocket PCR)

Comparison

• Basic configuration is the same.
• Both have fans, but the PTC-150 is (presumably) heated and cooled by Peltier, while the Pocket PCR is heated by a heater, and cooled by a fan.