Quick/Easy Focus Of Any USB Microscope W Repeatable Results

8) If you are lucky like me, the diameter of the threads of the ball joint unit will screw right into the other side of the flexible tubing without having any adverse size issues.

9) Remember, that if you find that either of the flexible tubing end connections is not securely fastened, the local hardware store can supply a five minute setting two-part epoxy to use as an aid.

Please do not allow the seemingly lengthy amount of instructional verbiage of this tread to dissuade you from attempting to do this very simple project.

After you get started and follow my advice, it's amazing how great you'll feel to have completed a device that you can brag on that you personally built: a practical instrument which actually saves time and truly assists to produce great pictures more quickly.

fyi,
mdpmedia

PS: I did check out the $ 49 Lighthouse USB stand mentioned in this thread but thought that it lacks the structural stability that this homemade tripod version offers.

Just image what a swinging dog tail would do to a single platform/upright-built Lighthouse USB holder compared to this wide-based tripod creation.

If this tripod is placed upon a slick wooden, metal or glass surface, for example, I simply use the attached rubber foot holders instead of the internally included spikes which are meant for more porous surfaces etc.

Plus I would feel much more comfortable with ‘securely' attaching professional and potentially expensive lighting fixtures to this tripod as opposed to the Lighthouse device.

IMHO

@mdpmedia

Wow! Thanks for the detailed description. I figured you must use something like JB weld to hold the screw in the tube.

I also have to admit though I still am not quite clear as to exactly what that flexible shaft is or how to find one. I have some flexible drill shafts which your pics remind me of, but obviously these are way different since the flexible tube for the drill wants to retain its straight position and is not pose-able.

Could you post a closeup pic of just the tube so I might get a better "feel" for what it is? I think locating this stuff might be the most difficult part of the project for me - I live in a technologically challenged area

I might have to find a way to improvise.

Gotcha! Now I know what you are talking about. Sometimes I can be a little dense!

Thanks again for this. I appreciate your taking the time to be so explicit. Making/building is something I enjoy very much also. but I also can appreciate it when another person who likes to engineer their own solutions has already come up with a good solution.

I am copying/filing all of this away in my projects folder until I research which USB scope I will get.