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Overview<\/strong>: Our pixel viewers are just tiny lenses that perform as pocket size microscopes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u200b\u200bSupplies<\/strong>: Pixel viewer card<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Objectives<\/strong>: Explore the world of tiny. What can you look at that you want to magnify?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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  • Use the magnifier to look at various items and their features, a five dollar bill, a one dollar bill, a cell phone, someone else’s pixel viewer card, etc<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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    A white pixel on a cell phone screen<\/p><\/div>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n

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    What\u2019s Happening?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

    These pixel viewers work just like microscopes, but you can hold them in your hand. The lens works by bending the light toward your eye and enlarging the image.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-optics","category-physical-optics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2039,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015\/revisions\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/oscoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}