Foldscope + Raspberry Camera? A New Adapter!
Sep 24, 2015 • 4:52 PM UTC
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Before start observing microcosmos, I built this simple and very cheap adapter. I’m using it to link foldscope on my Raspberry Camera, in order to acquire videos and picture. The advantages are:
Better stability, and comfort (compared to smartphone solution) Better quality (RasPI Cam compared to others same price webcams) RasPI Camera has many adjustable parameters (contrast, fps, brightness etc.) Simple to build and to use To build this adapter, I simply took a thin piece of wood and holed it with a 10mm drill. Then I pasted the “magnetic strip” (which connect foldscope with smartphone) with vinyl glue. After 24 hours I put the camera into the hole (the sides of camera are longer than 10mm, so the cam is stable). The following picture show the adapter and final result:
Better stability, and comfort (compared to smartphone solution) Better quality (RasPI Cam compared to others same price webcams) RasPI Camera has many adjustable parameters (contrast, fps, brightness etc.) Simple to build and to use To build this adapter, I simply took a thin piece of wood and holed it with a 10mm drill. Then I pasted the “magnetic strip” (which connect foldscope with smartphone) with vinyl glue. After 24 hours I put the camera into the hole (the sides of camera are longer than 10mm, so the cam is stable). The following picture show the adapter and final result:
Sorry for my english, this is my first “serious” post in a foreign language! For italian Foldscope users I posted a longer and more complete article on my blog: Raspberry to Foldscope Adapter
And that’s a video!
And that’s a video!
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