I'm looking for a relatively cheap (less than about $200) USB microscope for inspecting solder joints and wasting time looking at random stuff around the house at 200x. I figure there are a few folks on this list with the same unexplainable urges, so what have you found? I've found this:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/923a/ Which seems to be made by the same folks as this: http://www.pcgears.com/default.aspx?oid=189510 Except the latter seems to have higher resolution. They are the same price, except that ThinkGeek throws in a stand. I wonder if the microscopes are actually the same, and one site or the other has the specs wrong. Might be a confusion on ThinkGeek's part about image capture resolution vs. video capture resolution. There's also the bulkier "QX5" microscope made by a company apparently now owned by Intel, which cleans 640x480 resolution and sells for half the price. But the annoying thing is that neither microscope claims Linux support. Would ThinkGeek sell something that doesn't work with Linux? Aren't they marketing to, well, geeks? -- Randall _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
