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Overview - The $1 video microscope

With additional lenses, the XO can be used as a video microscope. A prototype $1 lens exists.

A video of Mary Lou's prototype microscope attachment for the XO video camera. She compares the screens of an XO and a "normal" laptop.

The microscope, which has ~ 100× magnification, could be useful to analyzing water quality, among other things.

Other microscopes

The XO has been used with the now-discontinued $100 Intel Play USB Microscope.[1]