DIY scanning electron microscope (from Scanning Electron Microscopy Blog)

OK, here's a project for all the do-it-yourselfers out there. Build your own SEM! This guy did it and does a really good job of explaining how an SEM actually works.

I guess first hand knowledge on how one is put together really helps to understand the fundamentals of how all the pieces work together to make a microscope.

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