Single millimeter ball as thick lens
Components: Smart paper with bending quality, borosilicate glass ball, coin cell, slide carrying specimen (here onion epidermis), LED (be replaced by much smaller SMD LED in actual assembly, paper cello-tape.
Focusing: The 'bending' quality of 'smart' paper makes microscope 'compressible' to the extent it can vary distance between object (specimen on slide) and lens (ball).Distance between eye and lens (ball) is changed by user voluntarily or involuntarily .
Pack of several millimeter balls
Single ball in centimeters as kids DIY microscope