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Workshopshed
Workshopshed over 10 years ago

Does anyone know of any USB Microscopes that work with the Raspberry Pi?

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago

    what use are you putting the microscope to Andy ?

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    0 Workshopshed over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Likely to be used around the workshop or inspection so want something fairly robust that does not need a laptop to run it.

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    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 !

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    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!

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    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!

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    0 michaelkellett over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Where did you get the bits from ?

     

    MK

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to michaelkellett

    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

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    0 Problemchild over 10 years ago in reply to Problemchild

    Or here:

    http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Hongkong-Lapsun-Wholesales-Store/_i.html?_nkw=inspection+microscope&_trksid=p2045573.c0.m57

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