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The laser cutting surprised me. I know it's almost certainly just for prototyping, but I couldn't help but think that a full scale industrial process could driv
by HCIdivision17 13y ago
The laser cutting surprised me. I know it's almost certainly just for prototyping, but I couldn't help but think that a full scale industrial process could drive costs far lower. I would love to work on the line trying to produce a quarter million a day per line. Ram a ribbon of that paper between an anvil roll and a pattern cutter, with another line rounding and polishing ball bearing lenses.
I hope it takes off - these sorts of cheap tech solutions will bootstrap the rest of the world faster than anything else!
- tedsanders 13y agoYeah, their plan is to use a die cutter for mass production of the paper parts. The glass beads used as lenses are already mass produced for other applications. Source: I've worked with them on an educational pilot of foldscope.
- boothead 13y agoIf there somewhere I can acquire some of these? I'd absolutely love to get them into the hands of my daughter and her classmates!
- partoutok 13y agoYes. From one of the comment: > To sign up for the “10,000 Microscope Project” where Prakash will give away 10,000 build-your-own-Foldscope kits to 10,000 people who pledge to share their experiences and experiments on his website, go here: http://www.foldscope.com/contact-us/ http://www.foldscope.com/contact-us/