Lötlabor Jena, who makes various hardware by himself, creates a laser microscope from a DVD drive and publishes how to make it and the images actually taken. 'In recent years, DVD drives have been ...

CHAPEL HILL -- First-year medical students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are finding less need to adjust a traditional microscope in their histology curriculum. Instead, they are ...

A team of scientists has made a substantial breakthrough in the search for disease-causing mutations with a very cheap DNA microscope. To expand our efforts to find genetic mutations that eventually ...

Living in the future if one thing is clear, it's that digital media is king. In the gaming world, it's becoming far more common to buy games digitally than it is to purchase physical copies. This has ...

Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Mike Szczys spin the wheel of hardware hacking brilliance. We’re enamored with the quest for a root shell on a Nissan Xterra infotainment system, and smitten with ...

Directly measuring the topography of bits on DVD masters and replicas with an Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is useful for quality control and process development. Parameters that are routinely ...