Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope
Finally, help identifying IC's. USB Microscope
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Every year parts get smaller and my eyes get worse. Black etched on black is hard to read. It took a LED flashlight at an angle, a magnifying glass and some luck to identify chips. A friend bought a USB microscope for looking at parts for his race car and paid $300. Looked like a solution so I bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/321640906258?_trksid=p2060... for $16 US shipment, just a week later it is $20. Not the best quality mechanically but it does the job. This is a picture of a .16 inch chip in the first minutes of use with no practice and no photoshop.





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Yes I spelled "loupe" correctly.
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I just bought one $22.16 with the shipping from Hong Cong , This will solve a lot of problems with my arm not being long enough anymore.
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There are also units that pop into a microscope eyepiece and once calibrated thay are fairly darn accurate (no auto edge detection but rather manual placement of feature points).
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