On the phone, children can run a variety of software that overlay on top of the image of the cells. Kids can influence the swimming direction of these microbes with a joystick that activates the LEDs.Ībove the platform, a smartphone holder positions the phone's camera over a microscope eyepiece, providing a view of the cells below. The LudusScope consists of a platform for the microscope slide where Euglena - light-responsive microbes - swim freely, surrounded by four LEDs. And then it developed much beyond that to enable self-driven inquiry, measurement and building your own instrument, said Riedel-Kruse. 'The initial idea for this project was to play games with living cells on your phone. 'Many subject areas like engineering or programming have neat toys that get kids into it, but microbiology does not have that to the same degree,' said Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, an assistant professor at Stanford University in the US.

WAHINGTON: Scientists have developed a new 3D printed smartphone microscope that allows users to control live microbes and play games like Pac-man with them.

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