Posted: 11/28/2013 6:31:17 AM EDT
| We homeschool our 9 year old and want to get a microscope for the family that we can use for a few years. We don't want a toy, need something that is quality. What are the hive's thoughts/recommendations? |
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There's a YouTube video that shows how to turn your smartphone into an powerful electronic microscope.
It looks easy to build. Some clear plexiglas, a cheap $2 laser pointer, and 30 mins or so. Everyone has a phone with a camera laying around, right? (It's on my "to do" list, so I have no experience with it.) If you build one, let us know how it turns out, I might make a dozen and drop them off at my kids school... Link |
| Check eBay. They have tons of scientific equipment from labs. For a couple hundred dollars you can get one as good as we use in the research lab. I personally like Leica or zeiss. With eBay and paypal's buyer protection policy it''s pretty safe to get something like this used. |
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Sent you a link to the one I would buy. It'll take you through college-level microbiology or A&P at the least. Happy sciencing! http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/2j/BillNye-300-md.jpg Post up the linky buddy! This is relevant to me too. I am homeschooling my two girls 8 & 6. We will need a microscope at some point, but I have no clue even where to start looking... |
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I know a lot of people who use USB digital microscopes in my line of work (aerospace manufacturing). You can get them for under $30 on eBay. They're not as good as a real one, but they're pretty darn cool. how do they work? Magnets? Actually, they're small video cameras that are set up to digitally magnify. |
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Quoted: Post up the linky buddy! This is relevant to me too. I am homeschooling my two girls 8 & 6. We will need a microscope at some point, but I have no clue even where to start looking... Quoted: Quoted: Sent you a link to the one I would buy. It'll take you through college-level microbiology or A&P at the least. Happy sciencing! http://www.popularmechanics.com/cm/popularmechanics/images/2j/BillNye-300-md.jpg Post up the linky buddy! This is relevant to me too. I am homeschooling my two girls 8 & 6. We will need a microscope at some point, but I have no clue even where to start looking... Something like this: http://www.amscope.com/m500c-e.html That will let your children go all the way to oil immersion and capture the images on their computer to prove they've done the work. Get them a couple slide sets, some low cost slide prep items, and some lightly used 100- and 200- level biology, microbiology, and A&P lab books and they'll be set. |
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Something like this: http://www.amscope.com/m500c-e.html That will let your children go all the way to oil immersion and capture the images on their computer to prove they've done the work. Get them a couple slide sets, some low cost slide prep items, and some lightly used 100- and 200- level biology, microbiology, and A&P lab books and they'll be set. That is an excellent choice. Digital imaging is essential today. It allows the instructor & student to see the same image, and discuss the viewed specimen. It also allows side-by-side comparisons. Thanks for posting that link. |
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Something like this: http://www.amscope.com/m500c-e.html That will let your children go all the way to oil immersion and capture the images on their computer to prove they've done the work. Get them a couple slide sets, some low cost slide prep items, and some lightly used 100- and 200- level biology, microbiology, and A&P lab books and they'll be set. I just purchased a shop inspection microscope, made by Omax, and was very impressed by the optics and quality of manufacture. The bug has bitten me, and now I'm also shopping for a student grade microscope. What I realized is that a mechanical stage is a MUST, and having standard DIN objectives and eyepiece, makes for swapping lenses a breeze. This is the model I'm looking at: eBay - 3 objectives - with mechanical stage - no digital camera My shop inspection microscope came with a 1.3 mega pixel camera, and is very useful for saving images to disk. |