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Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 7th, 2019, 6:37 pm
by binbin
I went to Shenzhen in November to check out electronic components. (And keep an eye out for watches......lol)
One of the things that I stumbled across was a digital microscope that could be used for electronic inspection of circuit boards and components.

I tried this once before with a USB camera , but the lag from the camera to the screen made it useless. These were different. :) HDMI camera , no lag and high resolution. Like anything else in life, the better quality ones were not cheap. :(

When I got home I kept thinking about the whole idea......so here we have it........ DIY
Please excuse the mess, it is set up down in my milling room right now.......I'm using it to do some surface mount soldering.
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The photos have been reduced in quality so I could upload them here due to file size restrictions.


Very happy with the end result. No lag, great big picture. Less than $100 Cad. (some frugality required). The monitor is a 22" but it rotates on the base and it makes the foot print a little smaller. The monitor also has powered USB ports on the back which means I can power the camera directly from the monitor.

I can see me using this with my watchmakers lather, surface mount soldering and watchmaking.


I stole the whole idea from here....

https://www.instructables.com/id/Raspbe ... icroscope/

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 1:24 am
by daevildog
I have one too, quite nice. Bought from ebay a couple years qgo.

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 1:35 am
by leeyewfei
extremely cool and extremely useful for people with deteriorating eyesight (like myself).

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 5:02 am
by straps68
Very impressive!

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 5:27 am
by tafari
very nice and very helpfully. I like it

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 7:34 am
by Mellons
straps68 wrote: February 8th, 2019, 5:02 am Very impressive!
+1

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 8th, 2019, 4:26 pm
by Yoda
I find my stereo microscope useless in watchmaking, unless it is all about a very small hairspring.

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 9th, 2019, 5:18 pm
by unreformed66
Yoda wrote: February 8th, 2019, 4:26 pm I find my stereo microscope useless in watchmaking, unless it is all about a very small hairspring.
Same here. I also have a monocular style microscope made by Bulova for adjusting the phasing on Accutrons and that's about the only thing I've used it for as well. A 10x loupe will get me anywhere that I have fine enough motor skills for anyway... :mrgreen:

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 10th, 2019, 8:16 am
by Tanukjaju
I just send my shit to people like [mention]unreformed66[/mention] and [mention]Yoda[/mention] should the movement need additional eyes :mrgreen:

Re: Digital Microscope.

Posted: February 10th, 2019, 8:55 am
by Yoda
Tanukjaju wrote: February 10th, 2019, 8:16 am I just send my shit to people like @unreformed66 and @Yoda should the movement need additional eyes :mrgreen:
LOL!