🔬 How to make a simple microscope | Amateur Microscopy

I show you how to make a magnifying lens. It is possible to see individual cells with this microscope.
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[@Seafox0011]

Surprisingly powerful magnification. Presumably the magnification is dependant on the diameter of the individual beads? (Which explains why the highest magnification objectives have the tiniest of optics at the head end.) Nice project and thanks for showing how to make a single lens microscope.

[@ExistentialSlothWriting]

Moving the illumination further away or putting a pinhole in front of the illumination will improve your image quality a lot due to increased spatial coherence of the light source. If you try using the sun as the image source you might get a nice image because the suns rays are nearly parralel at this distance. Either that or use a LED with a small pinhole in front. Great project!

[@legoworks-cg5hk]

It increase the contrast, but diffraction starts becoming a problem

[@alexevans7916]

Thank you for another fine and informative video. The surface quality may be improved by taking time to slowly cool the bead. Also some photo quality must be lost by viewing thru the slide. However I am most surprised that such a simple device was so effective. I feel driven to make one ..start from scratch, first obtain some nice crystal from the rain forrest...I have now set up both my microscopes on "their" desk in my astronomy observatory and given them their own solar panel, battery and inverter ( I am not on the grid) and they may even get their own computer ( an old one) for imaging ... I am maxing out its RAM to see if it can manage. Keep up the good work.

[@mustafahb4527]

I used a capillary tube and I made a 1mm lenses with that I'm able to see microorganisms from diatoms, algae cells, paramecium to even bacteria

[@mapachepataki5013]

what bacteria?

[@mustafahb4527]

@@mapachepataki5013 idk what kind of bacteria it was but it was swimming along with the paramecium and most likely feeding on them cuz the water sample was two days old

[@rplanet_r]

I make lenses the same way, but for some reason I have a lot of defects on the glass. I can hardly see anything. I used glass bottles because I didn't have anything else. Does it depend much on the quality of the glass? Which glass would be more suitable?

[@mustafahb4527]

@@rplanet_r of course it depends on the quality of the glasses i tried bottles and regular windows glass but it was both hard to melt and not clear so i tried to use capillary tube and was much better easier to melt and super clear

[@rplanet_r]

@@mustafahb4527 I made one from a jar yesterday, it turned out much better. I just don't have anything except bottles and jars. I also saw a video where a guy made one from an incandescent light bulb, he got a good quality image.

[@williamlegotyler1825]

Hello microbe hunter, your tiny microscope its sooooooo much powerful,if i put a exact same measure of your lent but if i put two glass ball next to ich other i increase the magnification?

[@rody3199]

I made a 1mm lens using this method and I had almost no spherical aberration. Maybe it was because I used picture frame glass, which I guess was better quality glass. I could see my blood cells!

[@williamlegotyler1825]

You have a photo? Of the lent.

[@Smalllazykitten]

I am going to use this for my Personal project in IB thanks man

[@cosmolocus6545]

👏👏👏 Leeuwenhoek!

[@oni2ink]

Just a random comment to say I love you channel :)

[@whywhy263]

This man is insane ... Respect for you.

[@ClaudiaMartinez-pj5xd]

Are you able to share the files to 3D print the plates?

[@rplanet_r]

I make lenses the same way, but for some reason they are very cloudy and have many defects. Very bad image. Does it depend on the glass a lot?

[@intensecutn]

That is bloody amazing. Very, very cool.

[@lawriegraney9929]

Very good.

[@JustinOliver08]

Wow i made that but I lost it that really cool

[@AnteBrkic]

Amazing! Did I understand it correctly that such microscope was invented only few years ago?

[@MicrobehunterMicroscopy]

Few hundred years.

[@abdullahalharthi2429]

@@MicrobehunterMicroscopy yep but they are brainwashed with the Stanford student who made a 1 dollar microscope

[@williamlegotyler1825]

How much this microscope lent zoom 70x?

[@mapachepataki5013]

may be, how would you measure that?

[@Thecarverman]

Love it so good

[@yousefgamer5696]

It is very good, but I have a small question .. Can you say what is the magnification of this microscope, but please answer the question because I always ask you and you do not answer my question

[@dhlvlogs4827]

I don't know the exact magnification power of this microscope is.But I am sure that you can see microorganisms and cells using this .

[@funtv5693]

Very nice

[@abhiranjanbhaduri8126]

Lens name?

[@lkledu2]

i guess we can use pen body/barrel (i dont know the proper name of that part of the pen)

[@lkledu2]

i also think of using it in physics classes, to teach about light

[@ninadesianti9587]

That’s amazing!

[@amritraj3015]

It is primitive microscope from which leuwenhook discovered first living cell

[@constantinalexandrupatrauc6287]

Bruh...the blue part of the flame is the hottest🤦‍♂️

[@JustinOliver08]

I used an led as a microscope I saw onion cells with it but the quality wasn't so good

[@MatheusHenrique-jg5ht]

How you make it?

[@jnanitaasapu9976]

Maybe you can make a video on how to perform a cross section of a stem... Because they kinda look nice under the microscope.. So plz try this..

[@lawriegraney9929]

Look through all of his videos; he has already made a video on making cross sections of plants.

[@samreensheraz2640]

Why is not breaking

[@sjmunoz]

fake. shows us how to set it for a honey bee leg, but not for smaller organisms bigger than an insect leg.

[@fantastica5967]

U r right bro ...He faked because he had magnification of just 100x...And for amoeba it needs 300x...So he used compound microscope and faked it.. as it need lot of polishing to get that type of magnification.. leunhoek just made 500 lenses in his 91 years life time....If he used this type lens in a day he would have made 5000 lenses😂

[@lotharmayring6063]

here it is shwn that 3-d printers are really bullshist