This week, the discounter Lidl sold Bresser USB microscopes for only 29,99EUR, so i got myself one, knowing that the quality would be rather poor. Provided I’ll have 10h of fun with it, that makes 3EUR/h, which is a good deal.
As expected, Linux supports the microscope via the UCV drivers, so it’s literally plug and play.
> uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1871:0101)
While you can use any tool like ucview or cheese, I prefer using mplayer.
> mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video1
But let’s skip the details, here are two shots of a dark winged fungus gnat:
20x magnification
350x magnification
20x magification with a 1c-coin
3 Comments
Can you send me the drivers for the microscope because i lost my CD :(
send them to cecibc@abv.bg
I don’t have the CD anymore because they drivers are for MS Windows which I don’t use. Anyway: you don’t need any special drivers, the microscope behaves like a simple webcam, so it should be plug and play.
Good luck!