Redmi K30 Pro and K30 Pro Zoom Edition were announced late last month in China. The former device is expected to release as POCO F2 Pro in international markets (except India). Ahead of that, engineers at Redmi have shared a cool trick on Weibo to mod Redmi K30 Pro into a handheld microscope.
Smartphone mods never get old as they are still popular these days, at least in the form of software. Redmi K30 Pro already has a good set of cameras such as a 64MP primary sensor with 26mm wide lens, a 13MP sensor with 12mm ultra-wide lens, a 5MP sensor with 50mm macro lens, and a 2MP depth sensor.
Redmi engineers proved that this camera setup can be further improved by modding the macro camera to utilize it as a microscope. All you require is a spare macro camera module to achieve this hack.
As you can see from the video above, interested users will need to cut the shell of a spare macro module to take out its optical lens. Once done, all they have to do is stack it in reverse position on the 50mm macro lens present in Redmi K30 Pro. That’s it, now they can click pictures at a microscopic level.
The video showcases a Redmi engineer clicking pictures of pine leaf, Daphnia, pollen-carrying leg of a honeybee, intestine, stem of xylophyte dicotyledon, smear of human blood, onion, and a surgical mask.
Anyway, do note that making any change to the hardware of Xiaomi and Redmi smartphones void warranty, unlike unlocking the bootloader and flashing custom ROMs.
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