A circular, vignetted high resolution image of a fungus gnat or similar species. You can make out the neck portion where the head attaches to their distinct hunchback. There are small wrinkles below the neck. Bristles everywhere, including between the ommatidia of the compound eyes. And a grey round structure next to the eye, which does not look like an occellus to me, but who am I to judge.

[insect, magnified]

This is why I love #focusstacking. Look at the wrinkles on the neck of that gnat. The hairy compound eyes. The little ..erm... grey...thingy next to it. Anyone good with gnat anatomy? #setzkasten

I think I fixed the focus runoff issues on […]

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A screenshot of two windows on a grey desktop background. To the left, scrcpy mirroring an android phone, running opencamera, the camera showing a microscopic view of a fungus gnat. To the right, a control panel with various settings.

Progress on the #frankenscope. Since all the software is networked, I just moved the scanning stack onto a NUC. The NUC is connected via one of our edge routers to 5G, and sits in a #tailscale/#headscale network.

That turns it into a fully remote operated […]

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