The Foldscope Background and Mission

The Foldscope is an ultra-low cost microscope made from common materials such as paper. It is revolutionizing how we access microscope technology allowing for diseases like malaria in developing countries to be diagnosed much more easily.

Foldscope:

Here is a fresh water oligochaeta worm, one of countless organisms you can observe with a Foldscope:

The Foldscope app gives anyone to power to observe the microscomos from their iPhone.

This app uses an iOS clientside and a Node backend. This app is a work in progress.

Technology Breakdown

This app uses an iOS client-side and a Node backend.

iOS Stack:

1. UIKit
2. Core Data
3. Google Maps + Google Geo Locater

Backend:

1. Node.js + Express.js + Handlebars
2. HTML, CSS, Javascript
3. MongoDB

NPM Packages:

1. Request
2. Cheerio
3. Body Parser
4. Mongoose
5. DateTime
6. FS

App Flow

Two main components of the app are the feed of observations that actual Foldscope users have made and the detailed view of those observations.

Here is a section of the observation feed:

Once an observation is chosen, this is what can be seen: