Hack a webcam and a film camera into a USB microscope. Contest entry shows how to make your very own computer enabled microscope. The project is called “My Inspector Gadget” by Butch Butch. Hack a web cam and a camera lens assembly from an old film camera to create a microscope. Butch’s results are pretty good, as are the results of the project he has created using his own webcam and an old lens from a film film camera and an LED from a discarded camera.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2011/12/hack-webcam-and-film-camera-into-usb.html