I just ordered this. Crazy low price. I know it is something I will use, as I have repeatedly been in a position where I wished I had something like this. It’s showing at 90% off — for logged-in member discount price: currently showing as only $14.99, discounted down from a list price of $142.99. I’ve previously bought from Vevor on various things and have been decently happy with the products. Caveat: I don’t have this in hand yet, but at this price the availability probably won’t last long, so I wanted to go ahead and mention it.
Well, it can’t possibly be an electron microscope. They must mean electronics microscope. The big thing for something like this is latency. It needs to be pretty low (less than 100ms or so). I ordered it anyway. If it doesn’t work for soldering, maybe the kids can look closely at some bugs.
If you are going to provide your own screen, there are a lot of phone/microscopes available I guess you get what you pay for - but I have often been tempted.
Mine came today. It is charging. I didn’t realize it has a battery. It is pretty nice (although it hasn’t turned on yet). The build quality is much nicer than the USB microscopes I’ve bought before. I am in danger of losing it to my wife/kids for science projects.
We had a similar thing a while back that was a screen and camera setup. It was fine at first, but it got pretty frustrating and fatiguing to use quite quickly. Since then we’ve had Mantis viewers at work, and I have a wide-FOV binocular microscope at home.
I’m not sure I’d enjoy working under it long term or for the majority of things, but then again I only use the viewer and microscope for specific tasks anyway.
Honestly, anyone soldering anything small for assembly should be using paste and a stencil these days, so that would inherently limit this to rework, inspection etc.
