Wednesday, April 23, 2025
Microscope array clamping system
The microscopes are a pretty important part of operating the RepRapMicron, so it is very useful to have them arranged in a way that can me moved in and out of position. I've printed a posable clamp that can hold one or more USB microscopes on a single 16mm aluminium pole. This gives a top and side view of the probe, and the microscopes can be swung out of the way just by turning the pole.
This should hold a range of different microscopes, and is fairly easily modified to hold other designs (Saad is suggesting 8MP PiCams used with OpenFlexure microscopes). I'll put the OpenSCAD files up in the forthcoming V0.03 release.
This setup allows me to get this kind of view of the work area on my desktop. Side view for adjusting rough probe height is the inset top left, main screen is the downward view:
Labels: microscope, reprapmicron
