Skylight turns your smartphone into a microscope camera

This is pretty cool: PC World reports Skylight turns your smartphone into a microscope camera, about a Kickstarter project* to build a hardware mount that lets a smartphone be used to take pictures through a microscope eyepiece.

One of the highlights of science classes in school had to when we got to toy around with microscopes. Of course, while most microscopes in school were fairly basic models, the kits used in professional fields such as microbiology can cost thousands of dollars--money that not everyone has, meaning less access to the technology.

Andy Mill was trying to make a low-cost solution to this issue when he created Skylight, an adapter that can connect most smartphones to a variety of different microscopes. Skylight works by aligning your smartphone's camera with a microscope's eyepiece, allowing you to record a video or snap a photo through the lens.

I love this idea and have contributed to the project.  I look forward to getting one with great interest, and can't wait to play with it!

Stay tuned!

* BTW Kickstarter is a great website where people who have ideas can raise money from other people who like their ideas.  SkyLight has raised over $18,000 exceeding their $15,000 goal, enough for them to take their idea from making prototypes into production manufacturing.

Comments

[benjamin]

This is such an amazing idea! This will take all the teachings on how to work a Microscope to a whole new level! The fact that you can take the pictures with the smart phone is very impressive! Wish I had that back in high school!