RPi Microscopy Ideas

Project Objectives

• Low cost microscope for laboratory applications.

Commercial Devices

Lens Options for C-mount HQ Camera

• Pimoroni .. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/microscope-lens-0-12-1-8x?variant=31885093371987. Review available here https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pimoroni-microscope-lens-for-raspberry-pi and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lTzv5IwWNk&ab_channel=PenguinTutor

• Seeed https://www.electromaker.io/shop/product/microscope-camera-300x-c-mount-lens-for-raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera

Stands

• Pimoroni .. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/microscope-stand-with-0-12-1-8x-lens?variant=31885089046611

• Adafruit lens mount for Pi-Zero and RPI 4

• Waveshare .. https://www.waveshare.com/pi4-microscope-kit.htm

• Hayear .. https://www.amazon.com/HAYEAR-Industry-Stereo-Digital-Microscope/dp/B07GPCQWXK

Software Options

• USB Web Cam would enable simple “plug-and-play” microscope use. https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-webcam