Using android application to turn smart device into digital microscope on Arduino and Window Platform

摘要

Microscope is an optical device that uses lenses to produce magnified objects too small to be seen clearly by the naked eye. This bulky and expensive device is used mainly in medical and scientific laboratories and difficult for novice to read. Lecturers guiding new students to focus and interpret microscope readings experience problems because they take turn in focusing at the sample. In order to relieve users of traditional microscope from these problems, this project designed a microscope on Android/Arduino/Windows Platform based on Smartphone microscopy technology. It enhanced a normal Smartphone with special components to readily attain the capability of a domestic microscope which is basically magnification. Android program is written and stored on the Smartphone and Arduino was used to program the micro-controller that was embedded on the chips. The Smartphone takes a magnified image or video of the sample and stored it in a database developed in Microsoft Access on Visual Basic 2010 platform. The stored magnified samples can be retrieved from the database and used for another purpose.