Let's add a cheap microscope to your Pi!
So what we have is a Pluggable USB
microscope that operates like a USB cam.
The program is GUVCVIEW or guv-seeview
Not sure why it's pronounced
that way but it's installed by sudo
apt-get install guvcview.  And we'll
show you how that works.  So the
primary reason for installing the
microscope is to add a soldering station
to the Raspberry Pi and so what we'll do
is stick that... let's go ahead and make
that window bigger.  Move those windows around
like I said, so move the back window up
to the left corner.  That's good just move it
off the side.  We dont't really need it.
So what we're looking at is practice pin
header soldering.  And the soldering iron
is cold right now.  We're just showing you
how the microscope would work.
Go ahead and show us how to focus that.
How you focus it is:
This one is closer this way is more...
Go on...
There, you are focused in.   Let's see
your finger.  That's my hand.
There's a good thing to look at.  Take a
look at that thing.
I can't really get it straight on, my hands
are kinda shaky.  You can see.
Let's see if we can get it a little bit...  There we go.
So now go ahead and if you can hold that...
just hold it there I'll take a picture.
You can take a picture by coming right
over here to capture image.  So we click
that and it puts an image right in your
folder structure here.  So if you bring
that up you'll see it right here.
There's the picture you just took.
You can take video too but what I
what I do is I actually capture video
from... I capture video from the HDMI on
this unit right here.  And that's been
working really well except sometimes
after you turn the Pi on you have to
unplug the power on that so it it turns
on after the pie gets turned on.
Otherwise the video signal sometimes
doesn't make it through to the monitor.
So that's the addition to our IOT
workstation is a microscope for
soldering.  And that's the standard
helping hand although I've taken the
 
magnifying glass off of that and then
put one of the clips where the
magnifying glass was.  Just to make it
more functional and I've folded it back
on itself so it doesn't reach out
quite so far and hold it it holds our
platform nicely there.  And then what we
can do is... the point is we'll use that
that little development board there.
I guess you could call it a
prototyping board which is only it's
like a buck to buy that and then we'll
use some pin headers to practice our our
pin header soldering.  So that's pretty
much the setup and next we're gonna do
some soldering with it.
