Fun with the new digital microscope.
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Amazon has a bunch of different models for less than a hundred bucks. Looks like I'll be shopping for a new toy! :thumbsup:
Amazon.com: Celestron 44302 Deluxe Handheld Digital Microscope 2MP: Camera & Photo
Amazon.com: Celestron 44302 Deluxe Handheld Digital Microscope 2MP: Camera & Photo
I just can't believe it.
I remember one year when I was on strike my son wanted this conventioanl microscope he saw at a yard sale.
I was not eager to spend the money but he talked it up and I bought it.
Paid something like 35 bucks for this thing that I ended up tossing out not long after because the image quality was bad.
He was dispointed and I was out 35 bucks.....
But in all honesty I never considered this sort of thing.
I would not likely have even seen one on a shelf and noticed it.....
We live in interesting times.
Tell me I would have a computer at home with a buit in microscope and all these cool gadgets 20 years ago and I would not have believed it.
I thik I need one of these things now lol.
Now some years ago I wanted a scope.
Needed one for a project but I could not afford one....
Look here.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/4-Channel-US..._Measurement_Equipment_ET&hash=item2c6845e998
This meets the minimum technical requirements for what I needed then and in real dollars its like 5 cents on the dollar for anything close to what I could have had then.
These are days I sometimes have a hard time believing
I remember one year when I was on strike my son wanted this conventioanl microscope he saw at a yard sale.
I was not eager to spend the money but he talked it up and I bought it.
Paid something like 35 bucks for this thing that I ended up tossing out not long after because the image quality was bad.
He was dispointed and I was out 35 bucks.....
But in all honesty I never considered this sort of thing.
I would not likely have even seen one on a shelf and noticed it.....
We live in interesting times.
Tell me I would have a computer at home with a buit in microscope and all these cool gadgets 20 years ago and I would not have believed it.
I thik I need one of these things now lol.
Now some years ago I wanted a scope.
Needed one for a project but I could not afford one....
Look here.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/4-Channel-US..._Measurement_Equipment_ET&hash=item2c6845e998
This meets the minimum technical requirements for what I needed then and in real dollars its like 5 cents on the dollar for anything close to what I could have had then.
These are days I sometimes have a hard time believing
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Not that hard to get...
http://www.oldminibikes.com/forum/o...ntly-mantids-eat-hummingbirds.html#post576380
http://www.oldminibikes.com/forum/o...ntly-mantids-eat-hummingbirds.html#post576380
I don't think I have the equipment to take photos of crystallized ethanol. :laugh:
I thought of that too. The picture above was only about 50x. This one of a ground electrode is closer to the full 200x:
And some more miscellaneous. This is a surface-mount LED on the end of a flash drive with ballpoint pen tip for scale.
Damaged RAM chip with silicon wafer showing:
The rest are two '80s vintage UV-erasable PROMs:
I thought of that too. The picture above was only about 50x. This one of a ground electrode is closer to the full 200x:
And some more miscellaneous. This is a surface-mount LED on the end of a flash drive with ballpoint pen tip for scale.
Damaged RAM chip with silicon wafer showing:
The rest are two '80s vintage UV-erasable PROMs:
MOAR!
That is the shutter of a 3.5" floppy disk with "720k" written on with a Sharpie because I formatted a couple 1.44mb disks as double density in the process of troubleshooting what turned out to be a bad floppy drive.
Incidentally, I have a couple genuine 20-year-old 720k floppies that are still good. :bowdown: I also have a pile of newer IBM 1.44mb floppies that have been going bad since they were about a year old. :doah:
That is the shutter of a 3.5" floppy disk with "720k" written on with a Sharpie because I formatted a couple 1.44mb disks as double density in the process of troubleshooting what turned out to be a bad floppy drive.
Incidentally, I have a couple genuine 20-year-old 720k floppies that are still good. :bowdown: I also have a pile of newer IBM 1.44mb floppies that have been going bad since they were about a year old. :doah:
