I came across a small lens while salvaging magnets and components from a broken DVD writer. Adding the lens to a phone or web camera, it turns it to a microscope. The magnification is not very high, but quite handy. So I made an ‘adapter’ for my Canyon web camera. The front cover had already fallen off before, so no damage there 🙂
After cleaning the lenses with distilled water and putting the camera back together:
Some sample images (live view on the screen looks a lot better):
