this is really cool! I'm using a commercial microscope right now, and really need to move to an automated slide stage to automate the assay. This is project is a great start to doing that. http://publiclab.org/tag/passive-pm

@TonyC can talk about kit stuff http://publiclab.org/wiki/kits#Kits+Incubation

Hi @Holger- I'm very interested in this, as well as a kit. Have you any updates on project? Best. -Peter

@plundh I'm not sure about this kit, but the OpenFlexure Microscope is moving towards a kit. More notes here: https://publiclab.org/tag/microscope

@richardbowman and crew have a kit for sale: http://www.waterscope.org/shop/

Picking up this thread -- we're hoping to do some replications of both the lego and the acrylic microscope. Would you be open to reposting these as an activity?

Hi kgradow1-

Yes, that's a good idea.

-Peter

Hi there, my apologies, but I have not been here for a while. If you like, any of my projects published on instructables could be reposted as activity here. I even had been improving the whole thing a bit, but habe been to busy since to prepare a reasonable documentation and work on this concept a bit more. My intention had been to build a larger version that would allow to screen 96 well plates. I even had build a prototype, but then changed the job and the focus.

Hi @Holger -- actually that would be super to see them -- we're particularly interested in the lego one, but any of your microscope projects would be great to see. Great to hear from you!

Hi @Holger -- hope things are going well. We'd still love to see your work republished here if you're interested. Especially interested in stage control pretty soon, too!

Here's some of the latest:

https://publiclab.org/questions/warren/03-12-2018/looking-for-a-simple-diy-microscope-stage-design-with-parallel-plates

And generally at #basic-microscope -- thanks!!!