Whatâs funny was the other day I was having miscibility problems with my coffee grounds in my french press, and my next door neighbor who is practically family goes âoh, why donât we gold-spatter those grounds vs the store bought ones and look at them under my Electron-MicroscopeâŠâ I hang out with a very nerdy crowd, so microscopes are easy to come byâŠ
Well, do a grain and take some better photos! ROFL! My attempts are kind of pathetic! 
A.M.A.Z.I.N.GâŠ! What did you do, make a jig for a rice grain? Seriously though, how did you support it?
bet it was double-faced tape holding it to the bed.
Trade secret⊠
J/KâŠI balanced it carefully just inside one of the grid openings, so the air flow from the assist was blocked âŠ
Shhhhhh! Youâre gonna give it away⊠
Yeah because that âbalanced it carefullyâ thing is total B.S.
I canât keep felt from blowing away. The rice would have been a goner as soon as the air assist vortex came even close.
Be nice. People might try to balance things like that - wait until itâs hubs trying to mark a diamond for you 
You win. After my seventh attempt of putting my name in morse code on a toothpick, I gave up. Definitely easy to do, I can read it, but to get a good engrave worthy of a picture⊠have better thing to do.
I hear ya! (The engrave was easyâŠthe picture was hard.) 
And I probably ought to get back to work tooâŠthis was just too much funâŠ
Obviously the mite used a miter saw to cut those gearsâŠ
shows himself out
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WINNER!
Totally amazing!
Winning would have been using the laser to brand the mite.
Well I think @dan has said that the new power settings coming out soon would be able to engrave mites. Right now they only cut/vaporize.
I do intend to write my name on mites so the wife will know which are hers to sweep up and which are mine to sweep.
Holy crap! canât even believe you got that fixtured up, let alone lasered!
We just got rid of our Scanning electron microscope, but we still have really good microscopes with high end cameras attached for metallography. Iâll PM you the address if you want me to take pictures! Amazing!
But did you use proof-grade rice?
I mean, of course it engraves rice. I forget if that was in the video or not. 
kidding aside, well done, thatâs super cool
Personalized riceâŠlol. You are crazy sisterâŠlmao. But yesâŠyou won!!
I am seriously impressed! Amazing work!
A macro microscope? Mite that be just a âscope?â
Macro + micro = 0 ![]()