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* Standard webcam with an adjustable focus-lens | * Standard webcam with an adjustable focus-lens | ||
* Computer | * Computer | ||
'''Step 1''' - Dismantle the webcam cover | '''Step 1''' - Dismantle the webcam cover | ||
'''Step 2''' - Detached the lens of the webcam. Often this optical lens part is partially glued to the front of the webcam but it can be detached by twisting firmly. | '''Step 2''' - Detached the lens of the webcam. Often this optical lens part is partially glued to the front of the webcam but it can be detached by twisting firmly. | ||
'''Step 3''' - Put the lens, up side down, back on the webcam | '''Step 3''' - Put the lens, up side down, back on the webcam | ||
'''step 4''' - Connect the webcam to the computer | '''step 4''' - Connect the webcam to the computer | ||
'''step 5''' - To focus, just move the webcam towards or away from the object | '''step 5''' - To focus, just move the webcam towards or away from the object | ||
'''Movie bio-robotics''' | |||
[[File:Screen-Shot-2015-10-22-2.png|600px|Still from bio-robotics movie]] | [[File:Screen-Shot-2015-10-22-2.png|600px|Still from bio-robotics movie]] | ||
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The video can be seen here [https://youtu.be/iB5cnaERx9c youtu.be/iB5cnaERx9c] | The video can be seen here [https://youtu.be/iB5cnaERx9c youtu.be/iB5cnaERx9c] | ||
=== Recognizing a plant in a pinch === | ===Recognizing a plant in a pinch=== | ||
by [[James Bryan Graves]] | by [[James Bryan Graves]] | ||
Latest revision as of 11:51, 16 December 2015
A reversible modification for a webcam which lets you take pictures of things far less than 1mm wide.
To make the microscope webcam you need the following:
- Standard webcam with an adjustable focus-lens
- Computer
Step 1 - Dismantle the webcam cover
Step 2 - Detached the lens of the webcam. Often this optical lens part is partially glued to the front of the webcam but it can be detached by twisting firmly.
Step 3 - Put the lens, up side down, back on the webcam
step 4 - Connect the webcam to the computer
step 5 - To focus, just move the webcam towards or away from the object
Movie bio-robotics
A screenshot of the movie created with the DIY microscope by Jona Andersen, Juriaan Boerman and Mark-Jan Tellingen during the workshop.
The video can be seen here youtu.be/iB5cnaERx9c
Recognizing a plant in a pinch
When asked to assist how to quickly recognize a plant with a webcam I remembered an Apple WWDC presentation called "Find my iCone" an app that tracked an orange construction pylon using it's color.
I already had some web/Javascript code to do some chromakey (greenscreen) swapping, so I just re-purposed it. However, tracking the correct color of say "purple flowers" needed to be a little less fined grained then #ef0114 (for example, I have no idea what "color" that is by looking at it's hex values), so I grabbed a JS library to print colors as words.
Here's the code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<h1>I don't see anything.