[Health] $30 microscope

Mike Lee curiouslee at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 00:43:34 EST 2010


The packaging claims 200x. The photo of the eagle head from a quarter
is with the scope touching the coin.

The photos were taken with the Cheese utility and then individually
saved out to the Documents folder in Gnome. From there I emailed them
to myself in Gmail.

Info on Cheese
http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/

Microscope came from DealExtreme
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.11743~r.27613104

Mike


On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> What is the range of powers of magnification and what were you using for the
> image shown in the photo?
> Caryl
>
>> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 23:14:03 -0500
>> From: curiouslee at gmail.com
>> To: beth at waveplace.org
>> CC: health at lists.laptop.org
>> Subject: Re: [Health] $30 microscope
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I ordered this Digimicro 1.3mp USB microscope and it arrived from
>> China today. I was able to pretty easily get it running on an XO-1.5
>> in Gnome. Photos and details here:
>>
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/5188951606/in/photostream/
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/curiouslee/5188951710/in/photostream/
>>
>> Here's the reference I used for the installation:
>>
>> http://www.stealthcopter.com/blog/2010/03/digimicro-200x-zooming-usb-digital-microscope-in-ubuntu-linux/
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Beth Santos <beth at waveplace.org> wrote:
>> > Interesting microscope I found via Woot! today:
>> >
>> >
>> > http://www.suntekstore.com/1-3-mega-pixel-led-usb-digital-microscope-video-camera-10x__-230x-.html?&utm_source=woot&utm_medium=paid&utm_content=deals&utm_campaign=s0003
>> >
>> > For less than a solar panel you could be sending one or more of these
>> > out
>> > with every deployment...
>> >
>> > Beth
>> >
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