STROBE UCLA Outreach Program: Stack-A-Scope - Winter 2018

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The STROBE Lab is an outreach program designed for high school students. The lab reached out to the Lux Lab to help print a microscope that would allow students to build a simple one and explore basic optics at the same time using the Form 2. This outreach program is funded by STROBE (a science and technology center funded by NSF), and UCLA is one of the STROBE major campuses. The complete project was for a microscope kit for high school students. Holds lens inside design & parts are stacked up to make microscope & a sample holder. Its purpose was to show students that by adding magnifying lenses the image (or sample) becomes clearer. Every piece of the microscope has a different functionality & held together with rods that we helped print for them.


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Faculty Member(s) / Advisors

  • Shimon Weiss

Graduate or Undergraduate Students

  • Xiyu Yi

Challenges met

The initial stages were conducted with the Lux Lab with some failed attempts. After this the design was adjusted and redesigned several times. The STROBE Lab then went on to the engineering lab as the Lux Lab could not support all of the prints with its scarce resource.

Pictures

 Stack-A-Scope Piece from Form 2


 Microscope pieces disassembled


 Stack-A-Scope fully assembled