9 responses to “EEVblog #282 – DIY Video Soldering Microscope”

• Seth Tucker May 26th, 2012 at 15:36

  This will obviously be extreamly beneficial to anyone wanting to record their soldering, but I think the video latency would bother me a quite lot. I wish consumer electronics designers would put lowering latency at a higher priority than they do, especially for real time applications.

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• PK May 26th, 2012 at 15:43

  I use a SONY EVI-400 block camera with a 12x optical zoom, connected to my 24″ Dell monitor with an S-Video input for SMD soldering. It’s not super high res (decent resolution at 768 (H) 494 (V) lines), but gives real-time response, unlike USB cameras that I’ve seen connected to some professional microscopes (where the delay is very annoying). I also hae a TI video processing card. It can convert video input from the camera into streaming video, which can be recorded. Maybe I’ll post results sometime.

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• Worf May 29th, 2012 at 02:59

  Dang man, that’s a US$1500 retail camcorder you’re using! (north american price – I can’t imagine what it costs down under)

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  • Worf May 29th, 2012 at 03:00

    PS: It’s also one of the best consumer level camcorders out there for a couple of years running, so you sorta expect that at that price…

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  • EEVblog May 29th, 2012 at 23:10

    Yeah, it’s top of the line without going full pro. Damn nice camera, I paid about AU$1600 for it at the time.
    I’m glad I didn’t skimp. Really nice pro features that others can’t match, like pro audio level display, dual SD cards, audio mixing, focus peaking display etc.

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• Phil Hobbs June 4th, 2012 at 09:04

  I’m a big fan of the Manfrotto Magic Arm–it articulates just like a human arm, and is about the same size. You position the camera any way you like and then a quarter turn on a handle at the elbow makes it become rigid. Good medicine for $100-ish.

  Cheers

  Phil Hobbs

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  • EEVblog June 4th, 2012 at 22:27

    Looks nice. Do the arms extend at all?
    I wanted to mount a linear rail up on my top shelf and have such an arm extend down anywhere over and along the bench.

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• funlw65 June 13th, 2012 at 05:29

  Hi Dave,

  These digits could be great for your USB Power Supply if you can get them in enough quantity.
  http://tronixstuff.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/hewlett-packard-5082-7415-led-display-from-1976/

  Vasi

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• funlw65 June 13th, 2012 at 05:43

  And I have three of these:
  http://arduous.orcinus.me/2011/07/yummy-led-displays-are-yummy/

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