Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-03-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Beth Santos wrote: > Neat. > Cell phone technology? > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/diy-cellphone-microscope/ “It still amazes me how you can build near-research-grade instruments with cheap consumer electronics,” I guess people's idea of cheap spans

Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-03-13 Thread Beth Santos
Neat. Cell phone technology? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/diy-cellphone-microscope/ --- *Beth Santos* Outreach Coordinator Waveplace Foundation Tel: +1 610 797 3100 x 44 Fax: +1 610 797 3199 Cell: +1 603 661 1273 http://www.waveplace.org Waveplace on Facebook

RE: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-03-11 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Love it! Tweeted it! Caryl From: b...@waveplace.org Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:48:36 -0500 To: cwith...@ekindling.org CC: hea...@lists.laptop.org; devel@lists.laptop.org; cbige...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [Health] $30 microscope Neat. Cell phone technology? http://www.wired.com/wiredscience

Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-02-18 Thread Cherry Withers
Finally got my Veho microscope in the mail today (had to cancel the Digimicro order). Followed Kevin's instructions and it just worked auto-magically. Thanks Kevin! So we are good to go for a microscope demo @Scale9x. No dice on the Intel play microscope but not giving up yet. Cheers, Cherry On J

RE: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-02-07 Thread Caryl Bigenho
tivity for Sugar that supports the use of a usb microscope? Caryl > From: srid...@laptop.org.au > Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 00:53:21 +1100 > To: kgordon...@gmail.com > CC: devel@lists.laptop.org; hea...@lists.laptop.org; olpc...@lists.laptop.org > Subject: Re: [Health] $30 microscope >

Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-02-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On a related note, does anyone know if the $1 microscope is being successfully used in the field? http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Microscope On 21 January 2011 10:20, Kevin Gordon wrote: > Folks: > > We've been able to get the Veho USB 400x 1.3Mp/2.0Mp interpolated to work > on  the XO 1 and XO 1.5

Re: [Health] $30 microscope

2011-01-20 Thread Kevin Gordon
Folks: We've been able to get the Veho USB 400x 1.3Mp/2.0Mp interpolated to work on the XO 1 and XO 1.5 under 10.1.3 with 'Cheese'. However, with this high resolution webcam, you just need to make sure it attaches itself to the USB 2.0 bus. If for some reason it comes up and attaches to the 1.1