Microscope maintenance

This course focuses on microscope maintenance in low-resource settings.

At the end of this course, you will be able to: 

1. clean and correctly store and transport a microscope

2. replace a microscope’s light bulb

3. solve the most commonly encountered problems with a microscope

4. adjust a microscope for Köhler illumination

5. take microphotographs, using your smartphone

6. calibrate a microscope for measurements

The course concludes with a quiz.

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