PlanktoScope: The Ultimate Alternative to Sea Monkeys
PlanktoScope is an affordable modular quantitative imaging platform for citizen oceanography that uses a software-controlled microscope with a Raspberry Pi as the computing hardware. It allows users to study and analyze plankton, tiny organisms responsible for fixing up to 50% of the world's carbon dioxide and serving as the base of many important food chains. The device can handle samples flowing through, capturing images with a high-resolution image sensor and a field of view of 2,300 microns wide by 1,730 microns high.