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CoreBOX

1. Experiment Overview

2. Experiment Deepdive

Introduction​

The CoreBOX is our base educational product and focuses on 3 things:

  1. Basic Optics understanding: Helping students to understand and experience basic optics.
  2. Basic Microscopy understanding: Helping students to understand and experience first microscopic experiments.
  3. Basic UC2 component understanding: Deliver an understanding of our cube system as a base to build more complex setups with our more sophisticated boxes.

Part 1: Basic Optical Experiments​

Overview: Which experiments are possible?​

The experiments are split in two groups: Optics & Microscopy. With the parts included in the CoreBOX, at least 8 experiments can be performed.

OpticsMicroscopy
Magnifying GlassMicroscope 1: Infinity Microscope
Focal LengthsMicroscope 2: Finite Microscope with Z-Stage
ProjectorMicroscope 3: Smartphone Microscope
Telescope 1: Galilean Telescope
Telescope 2: Kepler Telescope

Experiment 1: Magnifying Glass​

NECESSARY PARTS​

50mm lens

SETUP​

This is very simple and does not have a real setup at all. Students take out one of the 50mm lenses and look through it.

GOAL:​

In this experiment students see, how a lens magnifies what they look at.

More details can be found here: Lens-Wiki

Experiment 2: Focal Lengths​

NECESSARY PARTS​

  • 50mm lens
  • 100mm lens
  • 50mm lens

SETUP​

Now we need two more lenses, but still there is no assembly needed.The student choose a fixed geometry, for example a letter on the user-guide card and look at it through the different lenses

GOAL:​

Students should realise how the different focal lengths impact what they see through the lens. This understanding is the base to understand how the distance between different lenses affects the setups we will build later.

More details can be found here: Lens-Wiki