Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Microscope Slide Gimbal
Working on improving the photography. The trick with propping things up on lead bullets only gives me a couple of directions of viewing, so I've designed a gimbal rig. With this I can turn the microscope slide any which way under the binocular microscope. Getting good pictures is important because saying "I am creating tiny transparent things that only I can see" is a good way of getting an express ticket to the Funny Farm. Here's a good angle of the folded squares:
It has two sets of pivots, and the base can be rotated to give a third degree of freedom. This is what the contraption looks like:
If you want to build one I've put the STL model and source here: https://www.printables.com/model/1534011-microscope-slide-rotating-gimbal-mount
