Photos of today’s Webcam Microscope Hack Workshop at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry as part of the Contestational Cartography Symposium host in conjunction with the Miller Gallery. Photos taken by Hyla Willis. More on the way!

Amazing photos of hair from Erika Johnson.

I learned how to do this from the amazing folks over at Hackteria.org and Art/Sci Bangalore. Check out the DIYbio page on it.

The Setup:
Notice the soda cans. Scope and specimen are simply clipped to beer cans filled with pennies.
A cheap LED flashlight is positioned in the air by a piece of heavy electrical cord wrapped around it.
Software successes with iChat, Skype and AMCap.

C. elegans under $7 webcam microscope: