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I don't envy the eyesight of the worker that has to look through a microscope their entire shift, this was sad to read.

jpindar 12y ago
Have you used an industrial quality binocular microscope? I do - though not continuously - and they're not at all unpleasant. The eyepieces are individually adjustable, as is the interocular spacing.
sitkack 12y ago
We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.
- madengr 12y ago
  Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.
  - sitkack 12y ago
    Top and side view?
    - madengr 12y ago
      Nah, just something that gives you depth of field, sort of 3D, but not that drastic.
      - sitkack 12y ago
        Oculus?
        madengr 12y ago
        Maybe, but then you've got the lag and pixilation. Seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Still nothing nicer than human eyes looking through good glass of a stereo inspection microscope. Really not even the eyes, but the same posture for hours on end hurting the neck muscles. I suppose you can get used to it, but with a wire bonder there is not much leeway in adjusting the microscope position. Then again, for a guy manually wire bonding LEDs in China, it beats toiling in a rice patty. Even the USB microscope cameras are garbage. Much better pictures just holding a digital pocket camera up to the eyepiece.
- DanBC 12y ago
  An RPi projecting scope would be useful for inspection work. Have a look through FEC to see the kinds of prices people pay for inspection equipment. Ridiculous URL: http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt=Microscope&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&No=0&getResults=true&appliedparametrics=true&locale=en_UK&divisionLocale=en_UK&catalogId=&skipManufacturer=false&skipParametricAttributeId=&prevNValues=2031+202618&filtersHidden=false&appliedHidden=false&autoApply=false&originalQueryURL=%2Fjsp%2Fsearch%2Fbrowse.jsp%3FN%3D2031%2B202618%26Ntk%3Dgensearch%26Ntt%3DMicroscope%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26No%3D0%26getResults%3Dtrue%26appliedparametrics%3Dtrue%26locale%3Den_UK%26divisionLocale%3Den_UK%26catalogId%3D%26skipManufacturer%3Dfalse%26skipParametricAttributeId%3D%26prevNValues%3D2031%2B202618 http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Nt...
- tesseract 12y ago
  Video microscopes work OK for inspection but for working under the microscope, the video delay and the lack of stereo vision are pretty intolerable. What would probably work better is a Vision Engineering eyepieceless stereo scope.
  - sitkack 12y ago
    How about a stereo microscope hooked up an oculus rift?
    - aaronem 12y ago
      Sounds good for a second, and then you realize that it's going to induce a conflict between your visual and proprioceptive senses that'll make it impossible to work at best, and probably make you toss up your lunch besides.

Have you used an industrial quality binocular microscope? I do - though not continuously - and they're not at all unpleasant. The eyepieces are individually adjustable, as is the interocular spacing.

sitkack 12y ago

We should make a raspberry powered microscope that can project onto a 22" HD display. It would be awesome if Lytro had a realtime USB version of their camera.

madengr 12y ago
Needs to be steroscopic or else you'd be nailing bonds down in the wrong location. No substitute for a good stereo microscope for microelectronics work.
- sitkack 12y ago
  Top and side view?
  - madengr 12y ago
    Nah, just something that gives you depth of field, sort of 3D, but not that drastic.
    - sitkack 12y ago
      Oculus?
      - madengr 12y ago
        Maybe, but then you've got the lag and pixilation. Seems to be a solution in search of a problem. Still nothing nicer than human eyes looking through good glass of a stereo inspection microscope. Really not even the eyes, but the same posture for hours on end hurting the neck muscles. I suppose you can get used to it, but with a wire bonder there is not much leeway in adjusting the microscope position. Then again, for a guy manually wire bonding LEDs in China, it beats toiling in a rice patty. Even the USB microscope cameras are garbage. Much better pictures just holding a digital pocket camera up to the eyepiece.
DanBC 12y ago
An RPi projecting scope would be useful for inspection work. Have a look through FEC to see the kinds of prices people pay for inspection equipment. Ridiculous URL: http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Ntk=gensearch&Ntt=Microscope&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&No=0&getResults=true&appliedparametrics=true&locale=en_UK&divisionLocale=en_UK&catalogId=&skipManufacturer=false&skipParametricAttributeId=&prevNValues=2031+202618&filtersHidden=false&appliedHidden=false&autoApply=false&originalQueryURL=%2Fjsp%2Fsearch%2Fbrowse.jsp%3FN%3D2031%2B202618%26Ntk%3Dgensearch%26Ntt%3DMicroscope%26Ntx%3Dmode%2Bmatchallpartial%26No%3D0%26getResults%3Dtrue%26appliedparametrics%3Dtrue%26locale%3Den_UK%26divisionLocale%3Den_UK%26catalogId%3D%26skipManufacturer%3Dfalse%26skipParametricAttributeId%3D%26prevNValues%3D2031%2B202618 http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/browse.jsp?N=2031+202618&Nt...
tesseract 12y ago
Video microscopes work OK for inspection but for working under the microscope, the video delay and the lack of stereo vision are pretty intolerable. What would probably work better is a Vision Engineering eyepieceless stereo scope.
- sitkack 12y ago
  How about a stereo microscope hooked up an oculus rift?
  - aaronem 12y ago
    Sounds good for a second, and then you realize that it's going to induce a conflict between your visual and proprioceptive senses that'll make it impossible to work at best, and probably make you toss up your lunch besides.