He wound up using a USB microscope to place and solder these tiny parts, and we’re thinking his SMD soldering station is the bee’s knees. [techpawpanda]’s video-based SMD station is built ...

Even so, the basic principles of the Gelsight seem simple enough and possibly within the realm of inspired DIY in the same way that we saw a CNC gantry and USB microscope repurposed as an optical ...

This little microscope can enhance up to 80x magnification ... they can plug it into a computer with a USB cable. If they have a Windows computer, they can use Amcap software.