Users can quickly build their own microscope, no more than a smartphone, and the basic supplies worth $10 (about 600 rupees) from the hardware store. Do-it-yourself microscope projects were conducted by students from Missouri University of Science and Technology. The students participated in two biological science courses taught by Professor Terry Wilson. In one of the courses, students set up their own digital microscope, using carriage bolts, nuts, wing nuts, washers, plywood and Plexiglas, from a hardware store, laser pen lenses, LED lights, click on a keychain flashlight, to create a Smart phone for viewing and expanding specimens of the laboratory. When stacking two lenses, do it yourself with a microscope, which can magnify the sample up to 175 times, and a laser pointer lens, which has increased nearly 400 times, said Daniel Miller, who received a master's degree in science from Missouri Scientific Biosciences.
Miller created a prototype at Wilson's General Biology Laboratory where he served as a teaching assistant. Wilson is looking for an online version of a commercial kit and microscope, but is not content with what is available. When Miller showed her his prototype, "I was conquered by it. I was really shocked," she said. The complete set of microscopes in commercially available biolabs is usually the most expensive thing, which is more cost-effective and it is our perfect solution,†said Wilson.