Placing it on the phone’s camera gets me into microscope range but for taking pictures only, as I can just use the lens in hand. Inspection is where I have to use the lens at all, not for soldering.

The iMicro Q3p is a fingertip microscope for your smartphone, but its claimed 1200x range fell short in my experience.

[Yoshinok] recently posted an Instructable on doing a $10 smartphone-to-microscope conversion. The hack isn’t so much a conversion as just a handy jig, but it’s still interesting. The b… ...

Pocket microscope with accessory for ordinary smart phone Date: February 15, 2012 Source: VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Summary: Engineers have developed an optical accessory that turns ...

Walt (oneminmicro) You NEED This Microscope for Your Phone! Apexel PhoneMicro 5 Review. Posted: January 3, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. More for You ...

Between calling, texting and updating social media, people will soon be able to use their cell phones as a microscope powerful enough to detect viruses. Friday, June 13, 2025.

Attention nerds: If you like gadgets for your smartphone and you love optical microscopes, today is the day you kiss me full on the mouth.. Using twice the magnification power of a jeweler’s ...

Other microscopes that attach to smart phones have been developed, but most of those use custom lenses, which are more expensive. PNNL wanted a microscope so inexpensive that it could be thrown ...

The phone's lens (in this case an iPhone 7, but it would be the same with any phone) needs to be a few mm above the "bed" of the mount in order to be at the image plane of the microscope's ...

The cell-phone microscope could also be useful for TB therapy, Lam says. TB patients must be directly observed taking their medication over several weeks, to prevent drug resistance buildup.

image: This is a cell phone equipped with this small 3-D-printed microscope clip can show and send magnified images. The size of an inexpensive glass bead lens determines the magnification -- 100x ...

"We've designed a simple mobile phone microscope that takes advantage of the integrated illumination available with nearly all smartphone cameras," revealed lead developer Anthony Orth, in a story ...