a lot of us don’t have that luxury and instead must rely on magnifying glasses and loupes. [Mauro]’s project for the Hackaday Prize makes wearing these loupes and lenses even easier by adding ...

Measuring about 9 inches in length, the acrylic lens offers 30x magnification, and the embedded lights are powered by three ...

a lot of us don’t have that luxury and instead must rely on magnifying glasses and loupes. [Mauro]’s project for the Hackaday Prize makes wearing these loupes and lenses even easier by adding ...

Weighing just 90g, there are two zoom lenses - 30x and 60x along with LED lights to illuminate surfaces in all conditions.

From the hand-held magnifying lenses used by Italian artists and scholars in the 13th Century, to the invention of bifocal lenses by American statesman and inventor Benjamin Franklin in 1784 ...