Re: 4500 dollar LCD monitor microscope.

In article <xnk6cm8pwk.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxx>, dj@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
>
> Carl Smith <cdsmith69NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > Seems to me one could hack something together with a small NTSC
> > camera and a 15 inch LCD TV. The hard part would be finding the
> > microscope optics. And that shouldn't be too difficult.
>
> I have an IntelPlay USB microscope I've used for inspecting stuff.
> It's 200x and produces low resolution images, but the optics are
> reasonable and it was just a "cheap toy".
>
> Google for it and you'll find a couple of sites that have
> crystallography photographs that are stunning, taken from this "toy"
> microscope.
>

Actually, I have one somewhere. I got it on eBay for something
like $25. I never really used it because the software was just
so annoying with it's "made for 5 year olds" interface. :-(
.