William Grill needed a better view of his worktable for prototyping. He was using a three-times lighted lens mounted on his workbench, but it wasn’t enough for working on small gadgets. So he created a gadget for gadget prototyping — a monitor that can display his work at 12-times scale on his PC. The gadget begins with an inexpensive color security camera and lens. “It’s amazing what detail you can see when you view your solder surface mounted parts at 7-, 10- or even 15-times,†he says.
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