Hacking iPhone 4 into a Digital Microscope

I was always eager to zoom in to things to see if I can find microbes. This time I took a step forward and opened up one of my old DVD drives to remove the lens inside. I successfully removed lens from 2 old optical disk drives and both had different magnifying lenses. With one of the lens I could see the RGB component LEDs from every pixels of my iPhone 4 retina display.

Then I have now fixed it behind my iPhone 4 camera to shoot some pictures. See the following video that we compiled during the weekend.

I am planning to increase the magnification of the setup by adding 2 lenses in front of the camera to see if I can zoom into microbes level. My first target is to shoot a moving Amoeba.