Microscopes with chromebooks?

[Bluey Powell]

Hi

We have a bunch of these microscopes but aren't having any luck getting them to show up when connected to chromebooks.  Apparently microscopes should show up like any other camera.

Has anyone else used these succesfully or does anyone have any suggestions?

Ngā mihi

Bluey

[Steve Smith - Google for Education NZ]

Mōrena Bluey,

I would suggest trying the new Chromebook camera studio app and see if you have joy with that, it is designed for external camera input

https://camerastudio.app/ 

Ngā mihi

[Bluey Powell]

Thanks Steve

Good to know about the app but unfortunately it doesn't see the microscopes.  I susspect the hardware just isn't compatible with chromebooks.

Cheers

Bluey

[d.keen...@gc.ac.nz]

I am wondering to myself what would happen if a chromebook was in dev mode, and running VLC, as to whether VLC could see it as a streaming device.

But, overall, it comes down to what modules were compiled into the running Linux kernel on the Chromebook.  Fat deployments of Linux usually support such things out of the box.

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