Team:Cambridge-JIC/Make Your Own
Make Your Own OpenScope
If you want to make your very own OpenScope, this is the page for you!
Video Tutorial
Assemble the OpenScope
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OpenScope is a modular microscope: you can use it in manual mode, or you can add motors for finer control. It is very easy to swap between manual and motorized modes. It is also possible to make the microscope fully battery-powered: ideal for fieldwork.
You can use your OpenScope for bright-field imaging only, or extend it to include dark-field and even fluorescence (we have succeeded in imaging GFP only). Check out our Modeling pade to find out how to pick the filters you need for imaging any fluorescent molecule. And if you manage to get it working, we'd love to hear about it!
Open Scope Documentation by Simon Swan, Katerina Naydenova, Richard Bowman is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Please note that all contributions to 2015.igem.org are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution.
ABOUT US
We are a team of Cambridge undergraduates, competing in the Hardware track in iGEM 2015.
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Department of Plant Sciences,
University of Cambridge
Downing Street
CB2 3EA
CONTACT US
Email: igemcambridge2015@gmail.com
Tel: +447721944314