Fabrication and Assembly Guide

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This page will walk you through the steps of building your own MINIscope system.

Ordering custom parts

The filter set, MINIscope body, and Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) need to be custom made. Below you will find all the information you will need to order these parts.

Filter set

The MINIScope needs one excitation filter , one emission filter, and one 45 degree dichroic mirror. The filers must be cut to 4mm x 4mm and the dichroic must be cut to 4.8mm x 4mm. Filter and dichroic substrates should not exceed 1.1mm thick. [1] provides affordable filter sets and quick custom cutting services but filter sets from any supplier should work as long as they meet our dimensional requirements.

MINIscope housing

Printed circuit boards

Ordering standard parts

Screws, magnets, and wires can all be ordered through McMaster-Carr.

Electronic components can be ordered though Digikey.

Optical lenses can be ordered through Edmund Optics.

Grin lenses can be ordered through Grintech.

Please refer to the part list for part number and supplier.

Assembling MINIscope housing

Building cables

Assembling electronics

Flashing DAQ firmware

Installing DAQ software