gEDA-user: USB Digital Microscopes

[Stefan Dröge]

Must it be a USB-Device? I have one of those mini "Spy" cams, and
with a screwable lens, and if you screw it to the right level it has
a very near focus (I am not a photograph, so I hope the "focus" is
what I think is a focus :-) ).
To watch this on a computer you need of course a video card with
s-video input. I have it connected to a TV, because I don't have a
svideo in, but anyway: On the TV the image is bigger.
Here, I made a photo for you:
http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5804/pic0002mg0.jpg

It's a mainboard of a bricked ipaq h3660. Here is the rest oft the
mainboard (red circle indicates where I took the magnified photo):
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/9153/pic0008wx4.jpg

Sorry for the bad quality, but in one hand I held the video camera,
and in the other the crappy 25 euro digital photocamera :-) In
reality its much sharper. A stand would be good.

At work we have a cheap USB microscope (about 40 - 50 Euro) , and it
sucks! we bought it to take photos of solderings, but the images are
not really good. I place the pcb on a scanner, and just scan it, and
the images are far better! the only problem with the scanner is if
there are bigger components on the pcb the image gets unsharp
because the pcb doesn't lay flat on the glass.

Greetings, Stefan

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