#usb microscope

[uniglobalbusines]

Searching for a USB microscope

The USB Microscope (500X Magnification) from Uniglobal Business is perfect for close-up inspection in electronics, education, hobby work, or quality control. Simply plug it into your device and view magnified images on-screen with sharp clarity. Compact, user-friendly, and versatile — it's a powerful tool for professionals and curious minds alike.

[labotronicsscientific]

USB digital microscope

USB digital microscope is a easy to use portable unit with USB output interface. Software helps to observe magnified images, capture video and take snapshots. LED illumination with LED lamps for enhancing details in microscopic images. Adjustable brightness to control resolution and contrast.Compatible for PC usage with USB connection.

[blergeatkitty]

So as a birthday present to myself this year I decided to get myself a second microscope.

If you want to see things up close, send me an ask and I will do my best.

In case you’re interested, I am using a Vision Scientific VS-2FZ Trinicular Zoom Stereo Microscope with a 5MP camera for pics.

Here is today’s fun image set.

We begin at MAXIMUM ZOOOOM!

[ID: Hard to tell what this is up close. But they’re white, shiny, and sharp looking, interspersed with teeny dark bits. Are those fibres? Crystals? Flakes? Skin? Is that dark stuff dirt? Ink? Bugs? Blood? /End ID]

Un-zooming up a notch:

[ID: Um, still a mess of…stuff. Kinda white. More little dark dots. Definitely fibrous. But is it paper? Plastic? Some third and mysterious thing starting with a P merely for the sake of alliteration? And…Is that a curve at the bottom? /End ID]

Ok, not too helpful, let’s back out some more.

[ID: Ok, now we’re getting somewhere. It’s round and it’s fibrous and it’s white with little black specks. There might be a flake there too, same material. Can’t tell if this is normal or out of the ordinary. But it’s really round, even up close, and the round thing looks raised. Like the top of a LEGO block, but…fibrous, thready. /END ID]

And another YOINK on the zoom knob (you heard me, I just yoinked my knob. If you can’t handle that without giggling like a twelve year old then at least keep it down so the other kids can learn something)

[ID: Thé zoomed has been dialled back far enough that we can now clearly see the little round indented thing. The surrounding terrain is flatter, with definite horizontal striations of some kind. Is this proof of life? Were these once channeling some great flood of water, millions of years ago? And…hey, up there. In the upper right hand corner. Is that a shadow cast by another ROUND THING? Quick Robin! To the Bat Zoom/Unzoom dial! /END ID]

[ID: It is clear to me now from this vantage point at which I find myself that there are yet more of these round, fibrous masses. They are arranged in some geometric pattern whose ultimate purpose, for all my scientific knowledge, I cannot fathom. /END ID]

[ID: Thé image is the same, but an immense blade has descended from the heavens, its reflective point, glinting and metallic, pointing at the original target of our investigation. Perhaps if we zoom out fully we would have a better perspective. Quick Watson! The game is afoot! /END ID]

[ID: our perspective shifts beyond zooming, beyond the microscope. Returning to the macro-world, we find ourselves affixing our gaze upon an iPhone picture of an Xacto knife, blade pointing downward at a torn fragment of brightly illuminated absorbent paper towel. We can now see the circular, dotted landscape as the embossed dots making up the pattern on the paper towel fragment. /END ID]

Huh. The part I find nearest about this image set is the black dots. Totally can’t see them without the scope.

Oh yeah, and the fact that this entire time we’ve been looking at little dipped valleys as opposed to raised mountains. The final iPhone image of the microscope viewing area shows the paper roll dimples are all facing downwards.

Nifty!

Anyway, I’m going to do more of these. If you want to see the surface of something specific up close, feel free to ask.

At some point I’ll pull out the other microscope and my slides, because those are fun too, but right now I’m enjoying my new (early) birthday toy.

🥳🔬🧻

[ID: A final close-up shot of the paper towel fragment, brightly illuminated by LED light, dimples clearly facing away /END ID]

[buurmanuitwien]

lfde

famous!reader x joost

fem!reader x joost

description: you and joost made the mutual decision to keep their relationship private and out of the public eye when you started dating. many years down the road, joost leaves a surprising comment on an edit of you. chaos ensues.

//very fluffy, like tooth rotting, angst if you look under a microscope

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WARNING: RPF FANFICTION AHEAD

No one knew the two of you were dating, in fact, the public viewed both of you as chronically single. The decision to keep your relationship private was made due to both of your sizable fanbases. Each of you were famous in your own rite, but both of you knew both the joys and struggles of being in the public eye. False rumors, creepy fans, and little privacy was enough to make the decision an easy one. 

At the time.

Over the years, as you and Joost finally realized that you were it for each other, no doubt about it, you started to feel the pull to express your love for him publicly. Your 5 year anniversary was the hard, your poor friends following your finsta were bombarded with photos of the two of you. But the part of you that wanted to let the world know that Joost was yours, and has always been yours, was still clawing away at you.

However, you knew Joost. He was a (your) wonderful, loving, kind, fun guy. But he also was anxious, guarded. He kept the things he loved close to him as if they’d slip away at a moment's notice, and he was right to think that opening a relationship up to the public eye would change things.  You agree, but you also think that you're at the place in your relationship where you could withstand pretty much anything. You didn’t know if Joost would agree though, and you didn’t ask.

So imagine your surprise that one morning. You wake up, sun bathing the room in a light glow as your bedroom’s curtains hang stiffly in their daytime positions. The spot next to you in bed is unfortunately cold. You sigh, disappointed but not surprised. His album was very close to being done, and you knew how he got when the finish line was in sight. 

You reach to your nightstand to grab your phone, only to be met with something slimy. You yelp in surprise to see your fingers are covered in grape jelly. You turn to see a plate of toast, a cup of water, and a note laying on your nightstand.

sorry lfde,

tantu coming in early 4 finishing touches. i’ll bring home the usb, you’ll love it. also, i made breakfast B)

ik hou van je lieverd

joost :p

You grinned cheesily at the note, gently folding it up and placing it in the top drawer. You had accidentally started collecting them– you couldn’t help it! You loved everything about the notes, from Joost's messy scrawl, him drawing out text emojis, to him being too lazy to spell out “liefde” and shortening it to “lfde” (a very common thing for him to do, but it’s okay, you think it’s hilarious). It’s all so very endearing and so very Joost. Not to mention the also knowing the project he had put all his time and effort into was finally going to be shared with you. He had yet to tell you much about it, you didn’t even know the title. 

You surveyed the toast before taking the plate into your hand. As you were taking your first bite, you turned on your phone. 8:18? Not bad, especially for a Friday. 26 various missed calls and 47 texts? Very bad, for literally any time. Your friends had called you a bunch, and spam texted. “WTF why didn’t u tell me u were spillin” and “do u know he did this” were a few that stuck out. As you frantically scrolled through your notifs, desperately trying to figure out what had gone on, you reached the last two notifications. Second to last was Apson, who left a simple “You’re cooked”.

Last was Joost, at 4 in the morning no less. He had woken up that early? He sent a link to a Tiktok, and said “damn.”  You clicked the link to the Tiktok, and you can honestly say you were surprised.

Now, with a fanbase comes fan edits. You know this. As narcissistic as it may be, you watch a few of the ones that make you look like a badass when you need an ego boost. You rarely watch, however, the thirst ones. Of yourself at least, Joost is a different story. But here you were, watching a spliced video of you at an event where you decided to wear a particularly revealing outfit. You giggled like a child a bit at the thought that Joost saw it, watched it, but then your eyes drifted to the bottom left corner of the screen. 

“Joost reposted”

You inhaled sharply. Has anyone besides your friends noticed? You ran to the comment section to see. Accidentally doing yourself in, you read the top comment.

Joost: smash

[Liked by creator]

You stared frozen at the screen for a moment before bursting into uncontrollable laughter. You could be pissed at him, really you could. You could shoot him a text right now about the logistics of how to go about this and such– or you could take it as a challenge. You bit your lip and reopened your messages.

You: oooh u wanna play this game?

You were happy to see the text bubble pop up within the minute.

Joost: if you up me i will up you two times ᕙ(  •̀ ᗜ •́  )ᕗ

Alright, bet. You had envisioned soft launching him more times than you could count, so opening Instagram and making a story was almost muscle memory. You inserted a photo of him and the comically oversized stuffed bears he got you for your first anniversary and began cropping. It ended up only being two bears with Joost’s legs and arm in the photo but still– his tattoo was visible. If you knew what to look for, you knew. And now, people were looking. You added the Beatles “Here Comes the Sun” in the back and hit post to the story.

Five minutes later:

Joost: oke so we’re doing this 

An additional five minutes later:

Joost: check tiktok

Tikok? Okay. Chances are, he was not lying about upping you. You opened the app immediately, as excited as a child opening Christmas gifts. You watched his latest video, eyes glued to the screen. It’s old, probably taken two or three years ago, and it starts with Joost's face filling the entire screen. His expression blank, he slowly pans the camera out and up as a remix of ZIPLOC by Tyler the Creator and 4:44 by Jay-Z played, revealing his head on your lower stomach and your thighs resting over his shoulders. You gasped as the camera pans to show your face, and video-you proceed to stick your tongue out playfully and snake your hand into his hair to give him a playful ruffle. His face erupts in glee, and the video replays.

He’d fucking done it. Both of your faces were fully in that, fully visible!  There was no way anyone could mistake you as anything but his, and him as anyone but yours. You rolled around in bed, overflowing from happiness, before sitting straight up and snatching back your phone. Sure this was cute, but you couldn’t let him win. Okay, time to reopen Instagram. A main post to a platform with double digit million followers oughta do the trick! You selected a recent photo of the two of you. You’d taken it on a digital camera, on the couch of a friend's apartment during a get together. You have one wired earbud in your left ear, and Joost has the other in his right. Joost is dead asleep, his head resting on your shoulder, eyes peacefully shut. Your head is resting on his, your face smiling sweetly into the camera. You shakily copy and paste “oke so we’re doing this” and let out a small chuckle before hitting post and instantly chucking your phone across the room.

The nerves have hit you. This was dumb, so dumb,  and god you’d be lucky if your PR manager didn’t kill you. But also, it cannot be that bad right? Right?

--

It can. Nine long hours have passed since you’ve posted the photo and Joost hasn’t acknowledged it. Didn’t like it, didn’t comment, didn’t reply to your taunting “haha i win” text. Nothing. Radio silence. Your friends have been blowing up your phone but you won’t reply yet. You won’t make any other moves until Joost makes his. 

You stare at your phone screen, waiting for something, anything to happen. Jesus christ, thank FUCK it does. Spotify shockingly sends the notification:

An Artist You Follow Just Dropped!

Joost just dropped an album! Listen now on Spotify.

He did what?? You quickly check his social media and right on his story: an album cover with the text “album three months early. no promotion. i win.”

What. Did. This. Bastard. Do. You run to Spotify, and hit play. The opening track starts to play and… what the fuck? You knew he was experimenting with other music styles. He’d told you about trying to lean more emo on a track, and the sheer amount of My Chemical Romance he played while making it made you feel as though you were back in middle school. But this was so soft, shockingly so for Joost’s recent style. And then there are the lyrics. It was very Paul Mccartney-esque, with two characters' love story being told over the course of the song. While Lelie and… Grug’s tale was incredibly over the top and dramatic, the chorus was very different. The way Grug spoke about Lelie was poetic and gentle, true love pouring from every word. You listen in shock because, this… this was the Joost you got on Saturday mornings, sappy and sweet. You click on the song see the title: lfde

You let out a noise of pure shock and glee right as you hear the door to your apartment slam. “I win! I win ! I win, I win, I win!” Joost chants, and you leap up to meet him. 

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a/n: fully wrote this with reader being an f1 driver in mind. just thought id share. also forgive me for bad grammar / punctuation or anything of the sort english is not my first language LOL. i also ihave another version of this that ends differently so if anyone wants that lmk!! n i take requests :P

[dancingdonatello]

I want to put your work under a microscope and study it my god it’s STUNNING. Like the stories compared to the stuff I usually read is pretty short, and yet you convey so much character and emotions in each one! 

I don’t think you’d done anything like this yet but if you have already sorry! But I’m hopeless to a good opposites attract dynamic, so could I request Donnie with an S/O who is a witch apprentice in witch town but they suck at magic? Most of their spells leads to explosions so they prefer stuff like science instead cuz everything is laid out for you and everything makes sense?

I’m genuinely curious how people would write for Donnie with a witch s/o considering how he’s shown to view witch town in the show 

rise donnie x reader

He absolutely preens when you express your interest in science. He shows you his collection of microscopes and usb drives. His fancy super computer. His database of many classified scientific files that could start another world war.

You’re enchanted by all of it. Your many compliments and avoidance to mention any witch stuff to him definitely helps your speedy relationship. You’re dating within a month, despite his ‘hatred’ for witches and magic. In fact, he sort of forgets that you’re one in the first place. Sort of.

He catches you practicing some magic by yourself and realizes that you’ve never once shown him any magic. He feels a little sheepish, thinking he made the relationship all about him. It’s too easy for him to get caught up in himself.

He urges you to show him something. It blows up in your faces but he doesn’t seem too mad about it. He wipes the sparkly dust off his face and shrugs at your embarrassed teary eyed look. “Mine explode all the time too. At least yours isn’t toxic fumes and radioactive fuel.”

He’ll even brainstorm with you and April to try and find methods in improving your skill.

(And no matter how hard you try, you cannot get him unbanned from Witch Town. The council refuses to hear you out. His wanted poster remains on every public bulletin board. You draw hearts on them to make up for it.)

[oldguydoesstuff]

Me and my 2004 battlestation including cool Intel USB microscope.

[hihelloimanerd]

Chip Switch

I love Lab Rats, it's my favorite show and I rewatch it constantly. It is not without its faults. Chip Switch (1 x 12) is an episode I have a major gripe with. Bear with me I'm gonna yap a lot about this.

Ignoring the medical improbability of bionics, I think that the idea of the chip being the only thing that makes them Bionic is unlikely. Not only are they genetically engineered -mentioned multiples times throughout the show- they likely have biotech throughout their bodies. For example when Chase activates his hearing, we see a sequence of wires in his car canal or the USB in his finger. I believe the chip is mainly the power source and code for the Biotech.

Taking this into account with the chip switch it should've caused way more problems then it did. They're all engineered to have muscles, speed, and agility (at least in my headcannon). However they don't share the same biotech. Adam likely has most of in his major muscles and bones, as a result to support his major ability to retain muscle, he has to eat a lot. Bree even more so, her biotech increasing her lung capacity, bone strength, and muscles in her legs. Chase has to have the most, in highly dangerous places like his orbital nerves, brain, ears, and muscles for agility. Chase is the only one of the three with tech in his car canal, so when Bree has his chip while it might slightly enhance her hearing, it would be no where near Chase's hearing. They also would not have been able to access microscopic sight or the computer in his brain.

When Chase had Adam's chip, I find it weird that suddenly his intelligence went down the drain, as if he forgot everything he might have learned with his chip and from Davenport. Unless the chip for some reason interferes with intelligence but I don't think thats possible. With Bree's it makes sense that they can all use it with varying degrees of success due to enhanced muscles, trouble breathing and pain are very likely. Adam's chip would be similar.

I think the episode would've been cooler taking into account how bionics and their genetics work together. More glitches and giving the audience a firmer grasp on how they work. All of them have different abilities so their genetics have to intrinsically intertwined with their bionics.

Let me know what you think! I'd love to hear how other people think the bionics works.

[concreteafterrain]

Order has weight. Each atom is a marble on rubber sheeting, every chemical bond, a chain between them. A tree, structured lignin and cellulose, is a divot in some universal fabric. As the great Pillars of Creation nurse nuclear gravity wells, so to do they develop craters in the taut fabric of background entropy.

History can be measured as a series of weights. From the first entropic soup, quarks mate, and weights drop into being. Scale and Time emerge, and matter attenuates into threads of galaxies of stars and orbits of planets. The crust of the globe, itself a deformation, cools and cracks, drops chains of order between entropy wells while it forms mountains. The first cell is a splash of complexity, order in new form, and the pit is drilled deeper with the advent of the nucleus.

Complexity begins to eat itself — merging, becoming more becoming mitochondrial and multicellular. Each new lifeform is a sink, each cycle of death and decay a release. A lizard’s brain, a hand, a frontal lobe, a tentacle — each sit heavy on our so-flexible universe.

The heaviest weights, though, are cast with a new species, and their new invention. Human ideas make information, and spell pits like inverted spires. Each time a signifier is etched, carved, painted, drawn — blown onto the surface of the earth, a titanium bearing falls. Worse, human order collects itself. Libraries and corpuses, scrolls upon scrolls, are an open-pit mine; a great whirlpool swirling roads and cities around it, heavy with language, food, and advertisement. The planet sinks ever deeper into the universe.

But humans are greedy. Paper and Leaves are no longer sufficient. We must encode deeper, weave order into electrons, carve information into the microscopic sphere. Bits, ideas at once incredibly dense and fundamentally simple, are new spikes, even shaper, on the entropic plane. This is the crest of our age. This is our babelian folly.

Imagine, now, the massive weight of a data center. Imagine the pit it digs in entropy. Watch the wake hyper-compact USB drives and microSD cards make, carried in pockets and on trains. Can you see the way the world pulses? The way it spreads, imposing informational order on cables and wires, under water, through waves on every spectrum and in the air itself. Imagine the scale of information, moribund and unsated with the endeavors of a single species. Remember the course of history: How much heavier will it be? How long untill we punch a hole?

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[labotronicsscientific]

Digital microscope

Digital microscope is a compact bench-top unit. Inbuilt digital camera captures vivid images and real time videos. LED illumination with rheostat brightness control aids to achieve high quality images. Coaxial coarse and fine adjustment focus knob with tension adjustment aids in mobility of the objective lenses. Condenser adjustable for lateral movement has iris diaphragm.

[fixomnia-scribble]

45 minutes until the end of my office week, and I am very very tired and I want to go straight home, eat pasta and crash early.

But this is not one of those nights. This is a night for packing up the Outreach kit from the lab, ironing six lab coats, checking USB microscopes and laptops, charging UV flashlights, counting up bones and teeth and fingerprint cards, and making sure Freddy the Skeleton is still wired tight and the maggots in alcohol haven't disintegrated.

And then maybe my "day off" on Friday will actually be off (mostly), before the first big Forensics Outreach event of the term on Saturday! It's always a fun event, but this year our team will be made up of me and four brand new volunteers, so I'm gonna be "on" every minute.

And then a quiet Sunday breakfast out with a friend, and perhaps a quiet seawall walk. Alone.

[transienturl]

that... is an absurd number of parts. the fact that we live in a world where something like this is affordable enough to be a consumer good is nuts.

sufficiently advanced technology is distinguishable from magic, given that you have a microscope and enough industry knowledge.

[conservativemart]

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[kayinnasaki]

Tiniest baby isopod I've seen. I'm not even sure if it should be out of it's mom's.... sack... thing yet. But oh GOSH is it small and oh gosh could my awful shitty 10 dollar USB microscope get in close. Usually wen I see a white thing this small I assume its a springtail or a mite but here you can actually see it be SO SMALL and then ALSO see a mite crawling on i t.

[andmaybegayer]

Michael scope

Zeiss Jena Laboval ?3? I think, documentation for the Laboval series online starts and ends with the Laboval 4. By all accounts this is their upper mid range lab scope, with Amplival being the top of the line before you get to big scopes that have to be installed by a technician.

There's a large variety of Zeiss scopes that were manufacturered on this side of the iron curtain, as you can see this is an East German piece. Pretty good condition, scratchy condenser optics but the objectives and eyepiece seem to be in great nick, from a quick inspection, and that's what matters. Eyepieces are 10×'s, Objectives are a 3.2 semiplanar, a 10, a 40 planar (which I think will get a lot of use), and a 100 oil immersion. Pretty normal setup.

I don't have slides and slips yet so I can't do a proper mount, but this is pretty promising for just sliding a sheet of paper into the slide holder. Proper mounting will improve the focus plane immensely. 32× and 100× so far.

The illumination is off-centre and uneven but that's resolvable and anyway it might be fun to move to LED. I also want to build some top illumination brackets for opaque subjects.

I had like. A kiddies toy microscope growing up and I got as far as trying to make it do darkfield with pieces of cardboard, but never something this professional, binocular optics is such a big step up on its own.

The only real issue I've seen so far is that the stage Z axis is very sloppy, huge backlash. Everything has been stuffed with new grease recently so at least it moves smoothly, old scopes and old typewriters both have a tendency to seize if they're forgotten for more than a few months at a time.

I'll swing by the lake and pick up some algae and protist samples later, and I need to order slides and slips. Also I can print some darkfield and oblique illumination filters.

Probably not going to fuck too much with oil immersion, but who knows, also I'll keep an eye out for water immersion objectives.

I think that with an appropriate head replacement and some filter hacking I could get phase contrast microscopy up and running, probably scavenging some Amplival parts. I'd need to see. I can definitely get fluorescence microscopy working with an illumination upgrade. It would also be nice to gut the electronics and put in a simple battery powered illumination system I can charge over USB so I don't have to rely on wall power. Even the stock tungsten lighting is only 5W at 6V so that's easy to swing.

Objectives are DIN 45mm I think, and it sounds like many Eastern Bloc microscopes use standardized head mounts. I'll also be able to print a lot of parts for this, but I'll probably want to get some black filament for optical reasons.

First I want to do some protist sketches, I picked up a protists book at a used bookstore a while ago and it got me really hyped to do protist watching. This is definitely at some level me trying to replace macroscopic wildlife spotting in my life.

[girlactionfigure]

At the risk of stating the obvious, there are 15m Jews on the planet, about 8m of them in Israel. That is 15m out of 8b people in the world. 

How do you explain the absolute obsession with the Jews and its one and only microscopic state without using the word antisemitism? 

Why is the news coverage about Israel so disproportionate to the tiny number of Jews or Israelis in the world?

Why are 60% of crimes against religions targeting Jews? 

What is the obsession? 

The Jews have done more to make the world a better place than anyone, so how do you explain it? 

If you’re reading this post, chances are the device you’re reading it on has Israeli tech in it. 

Do you know that Israelis invented drip irrigation? How about cherry tomatoes? Waze? The USB thumb drive? 

What is there to hate? 

Really? The Middle East conflict is the most important news item for the past 5 decades? More important than the literal atrocities happening in Iran, Russia, and Syria every single day? 

Really? It’s 2023 and we are reviving all the good ol’ antisemitic tropes? The Jews control the media and the banks? We’re doing this again? For real?

I just can’t wrap my head around the fact that in today’s “civilized” world, the oldest hatred in the world is not only alive and kicking, it’s actually growing rampant. 

It’s equally sad and terrifying. 

I had so many questions about the holocaust growing up. 

- How was the world silent? They knew what was happening. Why didn’t anyone defend the Jews?

- How could a “civilized” culture like Germany allow this to happen? Where was their moral compass?

- How did the Jews not see what was happening and run for their lives? How did their comfort and total assimilation make them so blind to what was happening? 

I have had all those questions answered in the past five years, only replace ‘Germany’ with ‘America’. 

Growing up, I always dismissed the saying “Never again” because I thought the holocaust **could** never happen again. The world would never support violence against Jews ever again. 

And yet, here we are…

Hillel Fuld

@HilzFuld