but my DH is just so clever, I can't help it!
 

We have an old standard microscope from my younger years.  It's a good microscope- manification is find, but it's really hard to look at thing through the tiny viewing lens.  I wear glasses, so that complicates matters as well.

Well, my DH was messing with his new telescope and trying to work out a way to take digital pictures with it.  I can't even begin to give you the details of that. He says "It's so easy!"  But when he tries to explain it to me, my eyes glaze over.  Anyway, as he thought about these things he suddenly realized that converting our microscope into a digital one would be even easier! 

So here's the trick.  We have a little webcam and cable and we have a computer (of course) and a microscope.  He takes the cover off the webcam so it can be placed flat on top of the microscope viewer.  He then takes the top lens off the microscope.  He attaches the webcam to the top of the microscope, connects the webcam to the PC, and whatever the webcam "sees" shows up on our computer screen.  He so rocks! 

Slides that were so boring an difficult to see before now pop up right before our eyes.  No more kids jostling for position, no more seeing nothing but my own eyelashes blocking the view! 

I know what you are thinking- "Why not just buy a new microscope?"  Yeah, that would work too.  But it wouldn't be nearly as cool.