That’s important for someone who spends so much time hunched over the microscope. Oh, and he’s built the ring light on a rather nice looking SMD board. The board offers a few power configurations.

His homebrew scope levels the playing field a bit. The trick is to use 3D-printed parts to kit out commonly available digital cameras – a USB microscope, a DSLR, or even a smartphone camera.

A 'laser scanning microscope' can be created using parts that read DVDs. This article, originally posted in Japanese on 15:00 Feb 20, 2021, may contains some machine-translated parts.