Interesting post from dusjagr over on Hacketeria, who reports success using a 100 mW green laser with the lens from a cheap webcam, in the arrangement pictured here, to make a projecting microscope that will accept conventional microscope slides, and is only slightly more complicated than a Planinsic-type water-drop projector. [via Hack a Day]

More:

• Make: Projects — Laser Projection Microscope
• Laser Projection Microscope on Make: Live Episode 03
• Rob’s Laser Microscope Build
• Laser Pointer + Drop of Water = Microbial Movie Theatre