Digital USB 1.3 Megapixel Microscope
April 10, 2009 by Scott Wharton
Filed under Electronics
1.3 Megapixel USB Microscope. When I was a kid I used to love looking at things through a microscope. What kid didn’t? We used to have the heavy ones in grade school that worked well and I even had my own at home which was a cheap version of a real one but still worked pretty well except for the back-lighting.
It was cool looking at things that the naked eye and even a magnifying glass couldn’t see. The mystery of science.
With the computer age you always see microscopes hooked up top computers in labs. Well now you can almost do …read more
Does your beer look like this?
Unfortunately for the less technically inclined reader, I’m a bit of a geek for the science of beer and brewing. Even those of you who aren’t interested in science should find this website interesting. The image above? A microscopy view of Grolsch (which I chose over Pilsner Urquell and Samuel Smith Taddy Porter). If you don’t know what microscopy means, check out the site, and if you like the patterns you can also buy a poster. Pretty cool, that.




