Frame rate: Max 30f/s under 600 lux brightness.

Focus Range: Manual focus 10mm to 150mm.

The camera features a built-in microSD card slot, allowing you to place a card to record live footage or images.

Dual built-in snake adjustable LED lights to enhance image quality and visibility.

Stong metal stand, sturdy and durable, made from high-quality materials, coupled with the camera’s built-in stabilisation features to produce a clear and concise shake-free image.

300 x magnification, 1920 x 1080p, 30fps, HDMI out and a high quality non-interpolated large CMOS sensor.

Real-time imagery: smooth and clear with no lag or latency.

Replaceable lens cap: reduces glare and prevents damage and smudging.

Reasonable depth of field: no matter how complicated the object structure, this microscope produces a clear and crisp image.

So, I went shopping on Amazon.The Andonstar ADSM201 Digital Microscope is the perfect microscope for your PCB work and alike, a powerful 3MP camera with 1080p full HD output through the built-in screen or HDMI output to a larger screen coupled with the 2 built-in adjustable LED lights ensures you will see exactly what you are looking for. My starting point for exploring SMD has to be a good microscope, but I don’t want to break the bank. Fortunately, you can now have someone else fabricate your boards for you at a reasonable price. But, from my experience, the tiny footprints of SMD components might be a bridge too far for this approach. My fabrication method has been toner-transfer and a home made etching solution. You can find lots of great CAD programs for circuit board design.

I am used to using through hole components and 0.1″ hole spacing. As for steady hands, perhaps less coffee!ĭesigning and building circuit boards is the next challenge. You can fix the tiny fingers thing with tweezers and dental picks. You can solve the vision challenge with good lighting and significant magnification. So, old guys like me will need super-human vision, tiny fingers and steady hands. A typical resistor or capacitor might be 2-3 mm long and 1-2 mm wide. One good sneeze, and your entire bill of materials will fly away into the carpet, never to be seen again.

But most of we old time hams are terrified of surface mount components.

Andonstar adsm201 microscope