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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Very interesting, Ken. When I first saw the headline, I was thinking how great to write about taking your children to help set up benches, etc., on weekends before conventions begin, though I did wonder what a microscope had to do with it. Then I caught on. Ha.
Richard Wulf and I came up to Nevada two wks ago today, to work on getting the first proof set out of the upcoming new a Spanish hymn book. It’s going well. Looks like the new book will have 405 hymns, with 12 hymns removed from the present book. Pretty exciting.
We were with Glad and the workers and some Mexican friends last night and the topic of you guys and your work came up. To say the least, we are very, very excited to see the new hymn book!
Ha, ha! I just re-read my blog post title. It seems little badly worded given the context of our particular culture!