Saved my ass… Just barely
I couldn’t get my new devices fabricated in time. I hacked into the old ones, concocted up a really bizarre mirror, prism, and lens assembly, attached it to the microscope, and now I have the ability to image anything off normal to the surface of the scope. You would think that after working on this for about 3 days I would be able to get it working, but then you would be wrong. It barely works, and I am being very generous with the definition of “barely”.
I emailed my supervisor a bunch of pictures that look like those used in psychiatric tests. You can make them out to be anything you want them to be. I would like to think of them as proofs that my device works atleast in one state while some may say these are pictures of the Pope doing the “robot”. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is my proof.