Eakins auto focus microscope camera

[charliex]

last night i finally got around to adding an X stage stepper to my eakins camera setup and added control to allow it to move back and forth from my pc app, so i wanted to be able to control the camera as well which usually just uses a usb mouse, so i did some stuff on it last night and today, and wrote it up.

https://charliex2.wordpress.com/2020/01/05/eakins-camera-hackery-pokery-and-the-legend-of-measuretwice/

i'll add the rest of the commands that it can do to the post as i find them. (just did)

[charliex]

I put a  prebuilt app on github, i'm still working on it, but enough of it works where i can do all the parts i needed, might need some poking at negative mf positions.

autofocus mode
./talk a
manual
./talk m
move to position 200
./talk p 200
etc, see code for rest of commands.

https://github.com/charlie-x/eakins-camera

[charliex]

i wanted to try capturing multiple images for a focus stack test.

step from 140 to 155 and capture image each step.

for var in `seq 140 155`; do ./talk p $var ; ./talk C ; done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRmd8nV61Ds&feature=youtu.be

quick focus stack result with 15 steps
from

to

[I wanted a rude username]

Thanks, now the cracks on those lead-free solder joints can make me 29% more nervous. 

[pitfermi]

does the camera record 1080p @60fps on a usb stick?
is there a non-autofocus version and if yes, can someone link me to it?