We had a fantastic weekend building microscopes, geeking with colourful LEDs for illumination and using both the DIY versions and some other “professional” microscopes for BioVJing into our neightbours festival! We had some nice cultures already going on that suits well for making animated lively videos, Euglena have been growing a few months, a big tank full of waterfleas (Daphnia) and some spirulina bubbling in the corner. Due to bad weather we didn’t go out for a field trip to sample more soil and check the microbes living within…
Here are some more impressions on the hackteria wiki:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/OSL_-_Soil_Microscopy_Workshop
It’s always a classic and successful workshop… oldie but goldie it always works to bring the micro enthusiasts out of everyone.
If you wanna laser cut your own stages, you find the openscad and .svg files on thingyverse here:
Thanks to the GOSH community for the support to get this workshops series rolling on our (not so new anymore) Hackteria ZET - Open Science Lab.
https://www.hackteria.org/projects/news/hackteria-zet-open-science-lab-in-zurich/