Adam Savage's New Digital Microscope!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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Inspired by his favorite watch repair RUclips channels, Adam picks up and tests a new digital microscope to replace the optical magnifiers that he usually wears for soldering and detail work. This digital microscope--equipped with interchangeable lenses and a 10-inch screen--can magnify objects up to 2000 times and record what it sees onto a memory card. Adam tests it with a mechanical pocket watch, tiny 3D prints, and a few biological slides that leave him speechless!
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I think it would be great if you provided some more accurate magnification numbers than the product page. One reasonable measure would be the object compared to the image displayed at 1x on the default screen.
Or take a photo of a screen and note how many pixels each pixel is.
Or, if you want to go crazy, just compare the size of the object to the size of the object projected onto the image sensor(Probably the most honest, but the most depressing number).
After doing some math, I'm pretty sure measuring the image projected on the image sensor is actually a negative magnification...
If my math is correct, it looks like the coin is magnified 3.25. (39mm coin, 2175 pixels on my 3840 wide screen, 0.566 of the screen, width of a 10.1 inch screen is 224mm, 0.566 of 224mm is 126, which is 3.25x 39.
This device is great for what you are doing, but if you want to take it to another level, I recommend a stereoscopic microscope and a DSLR lens adapter.
Curious if that is really 2000x.
@@frijoli9579 If you zoom into the image 1000x it is(not really...it's complicated.)
Marshall and Adam collab!!! Side by side dueling microscopes. I would watch an hour of that with no hesitation.
The second he mentioned wristwatch revival this was the first thing I thought of!
It blew my mind watching Marshall’s videos and recognizing his voice , he’s actually Marshall Sutcliffe a prominent caster/host of competitive magic the gathering! I feel like he is under cover doing watch repair videos ahah
@@tc3d_ in many of his videos he has a MtG mousepad on his workstation!
I don’t think Adam knows who Marshall is…. He NEVER mentions him.
@@tc3d_ … which finally explains the MtG mousepad 😂 another mystery solved, thanks.
A modification that you may want to add is a rotating polarizer that can work with either lens. That way you can tame down reflections.
Turning your invention over to Adam is like having the ultimate focus group what he comes up with is going to be so far beyond what the original people who were great came up with this is going to be so much fun to watch
From watching you learn to use a lathe and mill as a machinist myself that was epic and now THIS?!?!? I studied watchmaking for 3 years and this gets me even more hyped to stay tuned!
Saw the thumbnail and was getting ready for a wristwatch revival vid. Lo and behold, it’s Adam being inspired by wwr.😊
Lol it's a good fit
Its always comforting when I discover Adam and I watch the same RUclips channels.
I was actually phyched when he was wearing a hat from @twoodfrd.
As another fan of Marshall's channel, I could not be more delighted or amused at the dichotomy between Marshall's calm, even demeanor, and Adam's frenetic bouncing around.
Watchmaking will be Adam's greatest challenge yet 😂😂😂
This!
I think that there will be a lot of bleeping involed or drastic editing!
I cannot believe that two of my worlds have collided. Marshall and Adam. So different, yet so much alike.
Hello young Man
It REALLY will be yeah. xD
Marshall's a charmer, I know better (for reasons not dissimilar to Adam) and he still makes me have to tell myself, "No. This will drive you insane." And I accept that because I know it is true, and I just enjoy watching Marshall instead. :D
That Blackadder reference at 19:49 and acknowledgement to the camera was for me. It was perfect. We had a moment there, thank you!
Chef's kiss moment: immediately set aside the included instructions and just start putting stuff together. I cannot express enough how happy that made me.
I am so happy for you to see the Joy you have at diving into the detail of this watch. I also am intrigued by Marshal at Wristwatch revival and would love to learn more. But I think it would be a great collaboration if you and Marshall got together and he would walk you though doing a repair / service on this wonderful pocket watch.
Love the call out to Marshall! He's awesome and diametrically opposite in energy level to Adam. Both serve as awesome background noise for me during long work days! And a nice Black Adder call out too!
@Adam Savage's Tested - Hey Adam... I bought one similar for doing solder work, and I found it immensely more usable with it mounted to a VESA swing arm monitor mount. I simply drilled four holes in the base and tapped them so that It would fit the mount from the bottom of the base. Then I mounted the microscope in reverse and tilted height adjustment bar so that I could use it to fine tune the height above my work. It works beautifully and gives me a much larger rage of motion over my work.
Feels nice to see adam starting a new hobby. I also love wristwatch revival, and wonder what you could do with it.
Lots of emails exchanged between Adam and Marshall -- stay tuned!
Marshal Sutcliffe has been one of my favorite content creators for over a decade. Made me smile to hear Adam say he's a fan too
Would be interesting to do some focus stacking for awesome macro shots
“BUT I WANT ONE, NOW”
Is an emotion I think we have all felt so very many times when experiencing something cool. XD
As a watchmakihg student who's been watching Adam since the beginning of Mythbusters I've been anticipating Adam's dive into watchmaking for so long. I also enjoy Wristwatch Revival for it's entertainment value and getting people into watchmaking. The one thing I would caution is because Marshall is self taught there are some thing that he is incorrect about with repairs that could cause damage if done. But overall a fun channel
Marshall got inspired by Mark Lovick's Watch Repair Channel tutorials on line. I believe that Mark fills a critical intermediate niche that enables regular people a head start in understanding how and what goes into servicing. Then its much easier to decide how much time and money you want to spend. And Mark is much less 'bull in china shop' than Marshall is around movements😀
I am so ready to see the Adam Savage watch repair story arc. And if we can get some Marshall collaborations that would be awesome!
That "Welcome" font is hilarious and adorable. I'm getting the 7" version of this scope for Christmas and I can't wait. Slides!!
We REALLY want to see you restore that watch Adam! Let's get that video STAT!
I'm a big fan of Marshall's channel (and his tool collection!). It will be fun to see Adam's approach to his watch repair and mods to this magnifier.
Took you a long time. I use it for 2 years now on the lathe. For small parts as a old guy like me it is a must. Now you can keep the safe distance from your object on the lathe. The distance between the lens and the object is about 30cm. You can make very fine movies also.
"Look at my filthy fingernails! How glorious!" -Adam Savage
The hight adjustment knobs on the stand was placed upside down.
If you turn it around the adjustment knobs will be lower and easier to reach underneath the screen.
Would love to watch Adam try to repair his old watch’s. Big fan of Marshall’s videos
A Marshall and Adam collab!!! Side by side on the microscopes. I would watch that all day.
This is fantastic and I can see Adam utilizing this every day! Can't wait for whats to come!
I've always thought you must be interested in watchmaking, given the intersection of tinkering, machining, function, art, and history involved. Excited to see that you're diving deeper - I'm about to start learning myself and I've definitely been inspired by Marshall's channel as well!
I'm looking into getting myself a digital microscope as well. I love seeing how exiting you are about this!
LOL... things I never thought I'd hear Adam say.. "Look at my filthy fingernails... how glorious!"
Why am I not surprised that you watch Wristwatch Revival…lol. I discovered that channel a few months ago and it’s just mesmerizing to me the tiny intricacies and precision of mechanical watches.
The whole time I was like "send the watch to Marshall", "I'll tag him to do a collab" and all of the sudden Adam mentions him, how awesome
Wristwatch Revival is such an addicting channel. He really makes you want to buy thousands of dollars of equipment and greases to fix your watches. Love it.
Use your minimill as a stand... Super solid. And you get very fine xyz controls
Oh thankyou so much for sharing one of your favorite things in the domain of youtube channels!
I couldn't help but think while watching this the quote from the 1989 Batman movie, "Where does he get those wonderful toys!?" 😃
The Blackadder comment got me...and then Adam pointing at me as I laugh was even funnier!
I LOVE my digital microscope. Bought it thanks to an Amazon gift card my friend got me for my birthday several years ago. It wasn't that expensive either. I'm an electronics hobbyist, but being extremely low vision, have always found working on electronics to be challenging. I've used magnifiers (both handheld, tabletop and head-mounted like the one you showed off earlier in the video) but found that they were clumsy and awkward to use, they always got in the way, and offered such a narrow field of view that they were extremely hard to use. The digital microscope is a game changer. I now have absolutely no trouble and can easily work on even the smallest of surface mount components, with great field of view and excellent lighting.
BTW I ditched the little stand that came with mine (it was too limiting imho) and instead designed and 3D printed a mount for it that lets me attach it to an old swing arm microphone stand that I had lying around. Clamped that to my desk, and now I can position the microscope in any which way I want to. And I have a couple LED spotlight lamps also clamped to my desk that I can use if I need additional lighting.
Recently I accidentally broke the USB port on mine (which is also used to power it) and that brought up an interesting chicken and egg problem. (How am I going to repair my soldering microscope, which I need to solder with?) I ended up having to pull out one of my old head mounted magnifiers, and good grief, that was an exercise in frustration. I was able to replace the USB port in the end, but it was NOT easy.
Unboxing with Adam reminds me of christmas when my girls were young, their joy and excitement.
I've owned this exact same microscope for a year or so. I use it for micro-soldering/SMD repair. It's awesome AND it has an HDMI out so you can plug it into a bigger TV or monitor for a bigger screen if you want.
I have a microscope with a smaller monitor - the lights and the rest of the hardware look identical, thought I don't know if I could swap out lenses like that.
But I can also plug it in as a webcam to my computer via the mini-USB port, which is super handy!
How do you find its depth of field? I've been thinking about getting a digital microscope for my lichenology.
@@vanessaryan3103 Just like any other microscope, it's designed to look at flat, basically 2 dimensional objects. Circuit boards are flat, slides are flat, etc. it doesn't really need a lot of depth of field for me since you can easily adjust the focus at any time. I like the ability to record video of what I am doing on a common and cheap removable micro-SD card that pops into the back of the unit, and it also has the ability to switch to black and white and reverse color (negative) modes as well as a whole bunch of other settings and adjustments that I haven't really had the cause to use, but are still included as features. It does a lot of things!
@@tbone9912 Thank you! I currently use both a stereo microscope and a compound microscope with 100x oil objective. The compound microscope has a digital camera attached, but the stereo doesn't and I sometimes need to take photos using it. I've tried using my mobile phone with the stereo through one of the eyepieces, but it's clumsy. I've bought a connector and tried using one of my husband's astronomy/telescope cameras. It works, but I can't keep borrowing his camera!
So glad that Adam is a fellow WWR fan! 😊
Wow. I have that watch. It’s my great-grandad’s old timepiece.
Surprisingly easy to work on.
Baldric!!
Yeah, that is an excellent series :D.
love the marriage of modern technology to old artisanship. I collect pocket watches and will always be amazed to hold something 200 years old and have it start right up. Oldest I've had was late 1700's and it ran beautifully. But try to imagine all the ridiculously tiny screws and parts that were made in times without any electricity. Been a big fan of Marshall's channel for over a year now.
I've experimented with magnifiers for ages and realise that the benefit of binocular vision cannot be underestimated but I love the focus control of a digital microscope. The surgical magnifiers are great but seem to be pedantic when it comes to placement with respect to the eyes - a fairly elusive mechanical sweet spot although the arms length depth of field is remarkable. A binocular optical microscope is restricting your work space and is not paint / glue / solder friendly. I've not found a good solution which is reasonably tolerant of changes in object distance, good depth of field and allows me to retain good eye-hand coordination whilst keeping awareness of my environment (soldering iron burns). You'd think the surgical solution would be the one - perhaps I didn't spend enough on my magnifiers. Maybe VR with a bino camera next.
Digital microscopes are great for inspection but it's very hard to work under one.
I love it when you reference Time Bandits.
"BUT I WANT ONE...NOW" I don't think I've related more to that statement.
That is awesome. Want one!
And your love for Time Bandits fills me with joy. I often say, "I've got an idea..." just like that.
For those interested, Marshall is also a Magic The Gathering player/commentator. He hosts a show called Limited Resources on RUclips that is focused on the Limited format in MTG.
Is the idea forming in Adam’s brain to make an adapter to mount the microscope onto the mill? More stability and precision! 🔬
At this rate Adam is going to get into jewelry next and make me look like a fool by getting some neat piece of kit I've never heard of.
Hey Adam!
Thank you for this new video!
If I had one I would probably motorize it.
Then I would program a microcontroller to make keyframed smooth transitions while staying in focus.
Bacause I just think that would be awesome for videos!
This microscope is really nice!
I yell everything!
wow, what are the chances! I just found Wristwatch Revival last week and binged his entire channel. I felt like Adam would love his style of videos and it looks like I was right!
add a Lazy Susan to rotate items without touch, love to see you make this portable, so you have another "Put it in a box" Challange with its own tools for usage.
I am really looking forward to watching you modify the interface for this tool. I am super curious if you believe that the screen need to remain stationary relative to your head and the table move to change focal point. DRO and tv screens don’t move so you always have the internal bearing to just glance to that spot. Will you make a centered arbor to mount the scope in the mill? Who knows what your gonna do. Maybe take the bone of a small drill press and use that for the base. So many possibilities.
How about a VR headset instead of the screen!!
I too think having the Screen stay stationary would be a boon.
Loved the magnified eyes at the beginning
I detest when I am told that there will be a link in the description for another related video, and when I go look for the link, it's not there.
Thanks for revisiting this topic! How cool. A totally unrelated note- I want your haircut, Adam!! LOL
I always love the fact that Adam just starts putting stuff together with no instructions needed!
Adam as a watchmaker's tinker is something we could all enjoy. First Order Retrieivability finds its next evolutionary phase
Another bonus of the headband magnifiers is that they make you look like you're in a Terry Gilliam movie.
Just joining the chorus of people waiting for an Adam/Marshall Collab, it needs to happen!
I, for one, appreciate that Adam takes the time to RTFM (even during a fresh unboxing), so he knows how to put it together and use it - unlike other channels, *cough*LTT*cough, that believe winging it with bad info only to be overlaid with the correct info in post-production is somehow 'good-enough'.
Having watched wristwatch revival and others, I really wish the Elgin National Watch Company was still around. The pieces are so pretty and varied. So much work and skill for affordable watches back in the day.
My father was a Watchmaker to trade, a fixer and engineer, for habit, and an old-fashioned beat Bobby for a secure living 😉... I became a Musical Instrument Technician to trade, a fixer, for habit, and a specialist Hospital Electro-mechanical Engineer for a living 😂...
Sadly, a passion, usually doesn't pay the bills...
PS I learnt much more than I realised crawling around his feet: I wouldn't touch a watch, but have fixed timepieces (it's only a clock if it chimes!)
I once had a job polishing tiny metal parts. I used an eyepieceless stereo microscope to see what I was doing (these cost around 4k EUR at the time). What amazed me most when I did this work was that my hands and fingers were capable of movements at a much finer resolution than my vision. Since then, my mantra has been "Make sure you can REALLY see what you're doing".
Adam Savage + Restorations = 🤯
WristWatch Revival is excellent! Say "train of wheels" - Say it! Why I spend an hours watching the same basic operation is beyond me. I guess its the innate desire to see things brought back to life and understanding how complex machines work. Its definitely high touch vs high tech. Or maybe its Marshall's soothing voice. He should be a radio personality on a soft Jazz station.
Great microscope! Just ordered it and thanks to Prime Day - even cheaper!
Might I suggest getting a modern eta 6498 to play with and get used to tearing apart and putting back together. Old pocket watches can be a nightmare. You will want to close the bushing holes which have probably been worn into oval shapes. Also you will want to polish pivots on gears and replace the mainspring which is probably set. Good luck
Adam, I have been repairing watches for 32 years now if you would like a new acrylic crystal, I probably have one in stock and would be happy to send it to you free of charge. I am absolutely certain you could replace it in just a couple of minutes.
The idea for a one day build I thought of while watching that would be a fine control for moving the subject/subject plate in x and y axis to give fine control of the area being looked at.
Mentioning Wristwatch Revival, a digital microscope like this with a firm stand (like the next video you did on it later) would probably be wonderful for that channel, to get closeups on tiny components. Glad to hear you like that channel as well. :)
I have been looking for a 4K digital microscope for ages but all the ones I could find when I last looked a few years ago were all piddly 2 megapixel affairs at best. Good to see that this is no longer the case.
Have the same Elgin in my antique collection. Same size and style of logo. Mine is also a Railroad Watch and the serial number dates it to 1896
5:09. Adam, my volume was up way too high for this.
I also watch Marshall and very much enjoy watching him repair watches and I have learned a lot through watching and one thing I remember is don't touch the watch or the movement with bare hands. It could damage the watch.
You need a viewing table that you can move left/right and forward/backward using dials for smooth, precision movements while filming
Hey Adam, you mentioned wanting a timegrapher. In the mean time, there's an inexpensive app for your cell phone that can stand in pretty well before you make that purchase and goes by the name, Timegrapher as well. Also, thanks so much for doing this review! I've been looking at microscopes for my pocket watch servicing play and at this digital microscope in particular. The biggest selling point is the distance between the specimen table and the lens. It suggests that you could see your work while you're working on it. Seems like something all watch working microscope should provide but don't. I'm also a fan of Marshall's channel. Not that it really matters, and especially with a beautiful Elgin like yours, but Railroad standard pocket watches had a bunch of different required features. Usually they included; Lever set hands rather than Crown set, Arabic numbers rather than Roman numerals, stem at the 12 o:clock position and not the three o:clock position, regulated to four of five positions, a minimum of 15 jewels prior to 1895 and 17 after that, open face rather than hunter case, no more than 3 seconds gain or loss per day and finally, they were usually size 16 or 18. Again, thank you! This was really helpful and it looks like I'll be getting one of these digital scopes. It should really help!
As a professional jeweler I cannot imagine doing my job without a good microscope. It's a total game changer in terms of the quality level of work I can do.
I've been considering getting a digital microscope cause I want to dive deeper into the world of soldering, glad to see they're not as expensive as I thought they would be.
Yeah I was surprised at how reasonable this was. $400 Canadian isn't too bad.
I imagine 90% of the cost is in the lenses. The rest of it is pretty much off the shelf electronics that is probably dirt cheap these days.
No videos for the next 3 weeks while Adam gets obsessed with examining everything in The Cave under the new microscope!
I love Wristwatch Revival.
I´d love to see a one-day build refining the machined parts of the microscope!
I have a pair of binocular magnifiers like that, but I need to find a pair with a slightly shorter working distance.
I like wristwatch revival as well I'm just fascinated by everything he works on
Three minutes in, and he already has ideas in his head to re-machine the entire stand.
Hey Adam. I bet you could get the watch timing REALLY close, almost as accurate as a quartz crystal, with a digital O-scope and a microphone as pickup. Pass the idea along if it works.
I've used that trick to balance rotating assemblies and to measure RPM with a salvaged light pickup and some reflective tape. Scopes read bare sensors really well.
Andomstar is a great brand, their microscopes are beautifully built and solid
Two worlds collide. I love both the channels
Looooooove Wristwatch Revival. Marshall is SUCH a good explainer.
All I could think of when "I dont have one of those machines that tells me how fast a clock is going, but I want one," was "what machine is that?... another clock?"
The one day? Build for this will be a fun one to watch, we should get some great close up views . 😁
“Look at my filthy fingernails..”😂😂😂😂
Ahhh, another Wristwatch Revival fan. Excellent!
A while ago I managed to pic up an old large metallurgy microscope made by nikon. It had alot of fungal growth on internal lenses that I had a go at cleaning to make it usable. Needed eye pieces and a new 20x lens as one of the lenses in the optic was smashed some how. The whole unit is quite bizarre as it's optics are mounted bellow the sample so you can technically put fairly large samples on the roughly 8x8 inch 2 axis bed. It has binocular lenses as well as a port for a camera, which it did come with an old film camera. It also has a spot for large format polaroid film that has a viewing screen currently in its place, with enough light you can see stuff on the screen. For solid/reflective objects it has a lighthouse which shines the light onto the sample via the optics using a bunch of mirrors optics and filters. It has 5 optics that range from 5x to 100x with 10x eye pieces for an insane amount of magnification. I will need to give it another clean to make the lenses clearer and make a light source to shine through the sample that will hopefully work better then an adjustable brightness 1000lumen headlamp mounted to an old desk lamp. Despite the jank I have managed to see water bears in liquid samples as well as many other crazy micro critters, I can't remember the scientific name but there's a crazy organism called a swans tear which has a massive long neck that it can extend and move around and I spent about 10 minutes chasing it around the sample using the 2 axis bed which has very fine control
Check the surface finish of your machined parts. You'd be amazed what you see. Also, see how a bit of polishing, emery cloth, goes.
Absolutely gorgeous. I love the form factor. That makes it much easier to do fine work under than traditional microscopes.
Also, I _love_ that watch, and it's awesome that it still works! Looking forward to video on it.
I got into watchmaking because of Marshall. Found I never used the digital because of lack of stereo. I always used my optivisor instead. Then I found an amscope on Amazon for $217. No comparison. Actually just picked up an Elgin pocket watch roughly that vintage. It was stuck at full wind. Did a service and runs surprisingly well for it's age!
As a Dutchman I feels so very proud of what the microscope has become and is capable of. We have come so far from the early Dutch invention in the 17 century. The whole story of the invention of both the microscope and the telescope is so very fascinating.
Can't wait to watch Adams wristwatch repair
So cool I ordered mine for the same purpose then I caught this video. Hope you post your pocket watch adventure 😊