Tonight we came in and wanted to get a proof of concept for the microscope. We initially started with a Raspberry Pi 2 and hooked up the Pi camera. We used a plastic lens from a cheap laser to get a magnification. We used a Raspberry Pi A+ board as a example subject. This worked very well and we were able to see details of the printed circuit board (pcb). We have already ordered glass beads in different magnifications. These should be coming in next week before the next build night. Using Python 3 we have been attempting to capture and save an image to the Pi. We will be building out a detailed Github to ensure there is transparency throughout the project.

Main contributers for this build night were:

Apollo Timbers - Hardware integration

Ninju Bohra - Software integration

Morgan Miransky - Lead project coordinator