Does anyone know of any USB Microscopes that work with the Raspberry Pi?
Does anyone know of any USB Microscopes that work with the Raspberry Pi?
Hello Andy, I have published a couple of post. A USB microscope is just used in Meditech as one of the components for skin analisys
Meditech: Microscope probe preview
The product is this: Dnt DigiMicro 2.0 Scale - Microscopio digital: Amazon.es: Electrónica
Enrico
The form factor is mostly influenced by the final usage Andy need.
Instead seeing the video you posted, I have also one just similar to the link I posted on Amazon above; this is a Chinese one and as first try I bought it about one year ago. External aspect is the same but it costs about 15$ while the one I used for Meditech costs about three times. And the difference is in the image quality, availability of technical information, stability, drivers etc. Usually when I search for this kind of products, I buy the cheaper to see what it is in my hands then the better average is - at least until now - the products that Amazon distributes as premium (Amazon prime in USA if I am not wrong). They have tested the product and grant for it. And if I disllike the product I can return it with full refund.
At least this is my personal experience.
There's a few people who've adapted the Pi Cam to this task too, some of the mechanics are overkill but the 3D printed tube + lens has possibilities.
http://openlabtools.eng.cam.ac.uk/presentations/2013_08_RPiWorkshop/OLT_MicroscopePresentation.pdf
The Kitware Blog - 3D Printing Adapter to fit Raspberry Pi Camera to Microscope
what use are you putting the microscope to Andy ?
Likely to be used around the workshop or inspection so want something fairly robust that does not need a laptop to run it.
The camera I showed you comes on a stage, a bed for the board been inspected and the right optics for the job where you get good magnification and can run the camera several inches from the work so you can solder or probe underneath it!
My suggestion is one of these and use a simple HDMI monitor with no computer required or you can go to a USB based solution as already mentioned, same cam does the lot !
The whole thing runs from under £180 to £320 depending on the config ... Don't think you need that much in reality mine was £ 214 for the staging and a 14MP 1080p video camera!
Where did you get the bits from ?
MK
EBAY there's a load of varieties, both myself and James got ours from a seller called Lapsun, we had t o do a software upgrade to get rid of a bug but the cam was good
http://http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=inspection+camera&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR2.TRC1.A0.H0.Xinspection+microscope.TRS0&_nkw=inspection+microscope&_sacat=0