Day 1 Making Microscopes

Our first workshop for this course was to make our very own microscope!

This was pretty exciting for all of us, as we had never thought that we could make a microscope, and what surprised us even more was we had to break open a webcam to make the microscope.

What we had to do was open up the webcam, and flip the lens over, connect the webcam to our laptops and, use the webcam device as a microscope itself. We then took some glass slides, and got some dirty water, and checked for micro-organisms in the water. Some of us were very succesful in spotting fast-moving, transparent micro-organisms in the water!