Raspberry Pi Visual Aide/Pseudo Microscope
Raspberry Pi Visual Aide or Pseudo Microscope
I have created a visual aide or a pseudo microscope based on the raspberry pi official camera. I need an aide to help me see small parts and small text printed on circuit boards or whatever. This camera can see small details in near total darkness.
I modified the focus of the lens to see near. So the subject is only a few inches from the camera.
No special parts needed - just any raspberry pi board and their camera.
Modify the focus with tweezers or very fine needle nose pliers. This requires a lot of patience and time.
On the raspberry pi, use this built-in command:
raspistill -t 1 -ss 60000000 -q 70 -o image1.jpg
This exposes camera sensors for 6 seconds or six million micro seconds. The -t 1 says to take a picture immediately and exit. The -q sets the jpeg quality. The -o sets the output.
Recorded: Dec 25 2016