It is “Bring Your Kids to Work Day” at my new job and I am giving a presentation on Machine Vision to the kids. The range of ages is 7-17, so it is a little hard to target something that will keep everyone interested. I decided to hook up a cheap ~$50 USB microscope to my computer and show them some image processing tools we use. I have been having a blast with the little microscope. I am trying to think of a reason to buy one for home.
I have been programming it for most of the day and believe I will actually be able to use it frequently for my work doing demonstrations and feasibility studies. It hooked right into my software, so now I can run edge filters, blob analysis, morphology and other stuff that I normally do. The camera has a zoom lens (a little bit of a cheesy one) that works really well to look at a fairly broad range of items.
Betty Blonde #305 – 09/17/2009
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