Hamilton Buhl VP-SCOPE Curriculum - Manual

VP‐SCOPE Curriculum Guide 1
Hamilton VP‐SCOPE Digital Microscope Camera Curriculum Guide
Prepared by Tara Weinstein, April 2011
Introduction
Microscopes have long been a part of every science curriculum, but they have been traditionally restricted to the biology classroom for use
with slides. While there is certainly no shortage of fascinating biological specimens to observe, there are innumerable other phenomena that
would benefit from closer inspection but that don’t lend themselves to being mounted on a slide. Because this microscope works like a
digital camera, it can be used not only for traditional biological applications but also for physics, chemistry, and elementary school
education. When the microscope is used for biology, it can often be used more efficiently since the step of preparing a slide can often be
skipped. The examples below should serve merely as a launch point for your own applications.
Downloading Images from the Microscope to your Computer
On a Mac (OS X)
1. Connect the microscope via USB to your computer.
2. Make sure that the microscope is turned on and switched to USB Disk mode. To do this, turn on the microscope, then click on the
Home button. You may select USB Disk mode by toggling through the options available.
3. Two drives should show up on your desktop. All picture files are located in the “NO NAME” drive, and can be downloaded and
deleted from there.
On a PC
1. Connect the microscope via USB to your computer.
2. Make sure that the microscope is turned on and switched to USB Disk mode. To do this, turn on the microscope, then click on the
Home button. You may select USB Disk mode by toggling through the options available.
3. A removable disk drive should show up. (This is often, but not always, the F drive, depending on how drives have been allocated
on your computer.) All picture files are located in the removable drive, and can be downloaded and deleted from there.