Microbe-scanner

The term "Microbe-scanner" has not been confirmed by official sources and is merely conjecture.

The **microbe-scanner** or **contamination scanner** is a machine used to scan and detect microbes and other contaminations on smaller objects. An example of usage is by the Superintelligence Agency's forensics lab at Superintelligence Sublevel 85.

## History

When SIA agent Carmen retrieved a bottle of Dr Lemur's beer from the anomaly "Chuck", a living room floating above a portion of the Dustlands, it was scanned by Shanananalala at her forensics lab at Superintelligence Sublevel 85 in Shade, and by using the machine she found the bottle was "entirely microbe-free" barring environmental contaminations from Carmen's transport of the bottle from Chuck to the lab.

## Description

The microbe-scanner is a white, square, rectangular machine made of metal, with a rotating holding mechanism inside of it, able to hold things horizontal and rotate it around. Underneath, at the bottom of the machine's scanning compartment, is a large grid that covers the whole bottom part there, from which lights are flashed to scan the object being rotated to detect microbes and other contaminations on the object. The machine was contained within a white metal box that had one side visible through a glass display panel, allowing the machine's user to see the object being scanned.

The scanner part of the machine utilizes a laser diode and for that reason has a square warning label about laser radiation and laser diode on the side that faces away from the glass display, on the right side near the bottom. A second square label is stuck to it on the left on the same side. A third red label is stuck one of the short ends of the machine. There were also a rectangular label further up the machine on the left and a square one further up the right of the side facing away from the glass panel.

## Trivia

* In the behind-the-scenes video on *Dynamo* *Episode 6*, Ian Hubert calls the machine "the bottle scanner," however the wiki has chosen to give it a more generic name, as it is unlikely that a machine like it would be invented or built or bought just to only be useable for bottles or bottle-shaped objects. The prop was mostly made out of white foam-core that was cut up and hot-glued together into specific shapes, coupled with a few plastic bits that were spray-painted all white and covered with a few decals that were printed out. The prop was then run by a servo and a few LED for the "diode laser" scanner part, all powered by an arduino that had a simple program rotated the bottle a random amount, flashes the LED lights, rotates it again a random amount, flashes the LEDs again and repeats this step. The "metal box" that the scanner prop was housed in in the episode was made of plastic that was spray-painted all white.
* The scanner prop would be really loud when it rotated the bottle around.
* At one point during the winter of 2018, while the scanner prop was sitting out in Ian Hubert and Kaitlin Romig's garage on the property of Futureproof Workshop, the black plastic gromit or ring that had held the bottle to the servo of the scanner prop split in two from the intense cold of the winter. The source of the gromit was unknown to Ian as it was originally a piece of garbage he had found, though he has mentioned that he'd like to find out what it was so that he could have another one. To fix it temporarily, he and his friend Connor glued it and later it was also taped.

## Appearances

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Episode 6* of *Dynamo*. KarmaPirates. December 5, 2018.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bottle scanner in *Dynamo Episode 6* behind-the-scenes video.