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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 ...

For the optical side of things, an old Canon DSLR zoom lens was pressed into service as the main magnifying element ... useful out of whatever you have on hand. Sometimes, that’s cheaper ...

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 ...