Further investigation reveals that the Traveler is likely a UVC based webcam 
microscope.  Aveotek provides controller chips to camera manufacturers and has 
a generic UVC driver download available for Windows.

I notice Traveler USA does not sell their microscope in the US.  I believe 
Mattell, Inc. owns some aspects of the mechanical design (since the sticker on 
the bottom of my QX3 indicates it was made by Mattell).

Regards,
Andy

Andy Walls <[email protected]> wrote:

>The cpia2 driver doesn't know about those usb ids.
>
>The Traveler microscopes look mechanically similar to the QX3 and QX5, but the 
>pixel resolution is higher than the QX3.
>The QX5 has the same pxiel resolution as the Traveler Mod 1, but the Mod 2 
>support a higher resolution.
>
>Given all that, I'm not sure we could use your unit for regression testing of 
>changes to the cpia2 driver.  It may be possible to support the Travveler 
>under linux eventually, but at a minimum you'll need to provide information on 
>the chips used in the unit.
>
>Thanks for the offer of help.
>
>Regards,
>Andy
>
>
>Thomas Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 09/13/2010 03:30 PM, Andy Walls wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:27 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>>> Em 12-09-2010 18:28, Andy Walls escreveu:
>>>>> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 17:12 -0400, Andy Walls wrote:
>>>>>> On Sun, 2010-09-12 at 22:26 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And other news on the V4L1 front:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm waiting for test results on the cpia2 driver. If it works, then the 
>>>>>>> V4L1
>>>>>>> support can be removed from that driver as well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> FYI, that will break this 2005 vintage piece of V4L1 software people may
>>>>>> still be using for the QX5 microscope:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry, that is of course, if there is no V4L1 compat layer still in
>>>>> place.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW, qx5view uses a private ioctl() to change the lights on a QX5 and
>>>>> not the V4L2 control.
>>>>
>>>> The better would be to port qx5view to use libv4l and implement the new
>>>> illuminator ctrl on the driver and on the userspase app. Do you have
>>>> hardware for testing this?
>>>
>>> No.  I did check Amazon.com and eBay and saw a QX5 for about US$75 after
>>> shipping costs:
>>>
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=380262406989&rvr_id=139147359954&crlp=1_263602_263622&UA=L*F%3F&GUID=0b3b537412b0a0e203e63006ff9becb0&itemid=380262406989&ff4=263602_263622
>>>
>>> I'm not sure if I want to buy one at that price, since I already have a
>>> QX3.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andy
>>>
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>>
>>Hello Andy, Mauro
>>
>>I own a USB Microscope which looks quite the same as the one in your 
>>link, but I don't know if it is similar to the QX3 or QX5.
>>It is called "Traveler USB-Mikroskop" and model number is "SU 1071".
>>One of this two:
>>http://www.traveler-service.de/cms/index.php?id=traveler-optische-geraete-de
>>
>>USB ID: 1871:01b0 Aveo Technology Corp.
>>
>>It is not working in Ubuntu 10.04, kernel AMD64 2.6.32-24-generic.
>>
>>If it is a QX5, I can help testing.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Thomas
>>
>>

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