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A do-it-yourself atomic force microscope.

http://groups.google.com/group/diybio/browse_thread/thread/e3ea9182fe618a71

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There is more info on making scanning tunneling microscopes, though.

http://sxm4.uni-muenster.de/stm-en/
http://www.geocities.com/spm_stm/Project.html

They have their uses. With enough dedication or autism, you could possibly implement something like Zyvex's patterned atomic layer epitaxy method for growing atomically-precise crystals using STM.