The Kickstarter project is expected to transform your smartphone's camera into a powerful microscope with a magnification of up to 1000 times.

This Google cardboard kit called DIPLE will enable users to check for microorganisms, bacteria, particles, and even our own blood cells in engine exhaust.

According to a standardized procedure, the user must collect a small amount of blood sample and place it on the prepared glass slide. However, you do not need a pathology compound microscope, but a smart phone.

The portable kit provides three magnifications (35x, 75x, and 150x), which can be fundamentally increased by the digital zoom of a smartphone.

According to the developer, to achieve 1000x magnification without pixelation, a smartphone with excellent camera specifications is required. This setting applies to iPhone and Android smartphones. In addition, you need to install any application to make the microscope work.

The developers of DIPLE claim that the kit can "drop from a height of 10 meters and still run perfectly." Overall, the smartphone microscope kit is a budget alternative to standard microscopes.

Interestingly, DIPLE is not the team's first project. Before that, they developed BLIPS, which is mainly a bunch of stickable macro smartphone lenses for very close-up shooting. Although BLIPS is a successful project, it does not provide the macro level of DIPLE.

Currently, USB microscopes are a popular alternative to inexpensive microscope kits. However, the DIPLE team claims that all other alternatives will not produce the same quality and detail in the image.

DIPLE's current 35x zoom kit is priced at $40, and all three magnification kits are priced as high as $120.