Microscopes for kids??

[Tony]

Anyone got an opinion on a good starter microscope for kids to use? Cheap is good, although I do appreciate that there is no point buying rubbish!

Cheers

T

 

[Andy]

how old is the child in question. I'm not sure how much schools spend on them, it might be worth asking a school to see which ones they use

 

[Tony]

Good point, he's 6 and at the moment he's using magnifying glasses, I just thought that he would enjoy seeing even more detail.

I know some teachers so I'll have a word

 

[JakeR]

Tone, My mother bought me a small microscope when i was about 7. you should take a look in a large toy shop or something like that. Or maybe even Argos?

Jake

 

[stevec]

tone, we have a kiddie's electronic microscope here, and there's at least one other company that uses them. made by intelor microsoft possibly, plug into computer, they are quite cool. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/intelplay/ have a look at that.
sc

 

[Adi007]

Intel make them ... good bit of kit. The only problem is that they have stopped making them and dumped support for them and the last I heard was there there was no Win XP drivers of software for them.

I might be wrong - please correct me if I am because I was interested in one.

 

[Tony]

I might bid for this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....;item=5101142265&rd=1&ssPageName=WD4V

Seems to be fine with XP

 

[Adi007]

Yeah, you just need to download the XP update for it. Nice bit of kit.