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Make a USB Microscope

video Make a USB Microscope
Don't Drop This Episode 02 will show you how to make a Microscope using one old Webcam

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/977880/make_a_usb_microscope/
13 comments
Aug 7, 2010. 8:10 AMpleabargain says:
None of the vid links work.
Sep 2, 2009. 10:31 AMKirbsome! says:
"this video has been removed from metacafe" sigh
Nov 8, 2008. 12:36 AMblackspeed says:
thats cool but i don have 1 old webcam
Oct 19, 2008. 10:36 AMjunits15 says:
thats cool
Dec 18, 2007. 10:53 AMChavez says:
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Dec 16, 2007. 9:01 AMrimar2000 says:
Very interesting. Congratulations
Dec 15, 2007. 6:59 PMTool Using Animal says:
Is this a "one shot"? Can you clean the water off the CCD without killing it? And I guess your magnification is limited to about 50x.
Dec 16, 2007. 12:01 AMac1D says:
And I guess your magnification is limited to about 50x. this depend on the webcam..
Dec 16, 2007. 6:52 AMTool Using Animal says:
Well it would be easy enough to figure, screen dimension divided by sensor dimension.
Dec 15, 2007. 7:10 PMGorillazMiko says:
this is on instructables about 3 times, but this is still cool

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