![]() The right side of the unit contains the rest of the controls. Plus, you can save images and video to a micro SD card for later review (though the aspect ratio on the images, as saved, is wrong). This is a battery powered microscope, which sounds pretty handy - no need to have yet another cord running around your workbench. In the very lower right corner, a blue power LED lets you know when the unit is turned on. You’ve got a focus knob (nicely mechanical), a power button, a menu button, a mode button, two arrows, and an OK button. Or, at least, sort of “make-a-bit-bigger-scope.” Because it’s sure not 600x or anywhere close. What’s inside? What horrible hazards lurk within? Keep reading to find out all this, and more! The G600 “1-600x” 4.3” Microscope I’m trying to get through a backlog of gizmos I have laying around before too many more show up (and these are good idle time posts - I pulled it apart while babysitting a Roomba that was slowly learning the house and getting stuck on pull toys). Like most of my office gizmos, I played around with it for a bit to get a feel for it, and then proceeded to pull it completely apart, and over-analyze it in my usual style. You can get them for about $40 on eBay, they’re definitely useful, but they are most definitely not “600x” zoom as you’ll see advertised - unless you happen to have a truly massive TV as a monitor instead of the built in display. ![]() I recently acquired one of the “G600” microscopes you find floating around the internet. What has the internet come to when really interesting, cheap gizmos aren’t being properly torn apart in reviews? Are people afraid to take a screwdriver to a $40 piece of hardware and find out what’s inside (spoiler: mystery meat)? Do we just accept things like “1-600x” microscopes without calling MBE (Male Bovine Excrement)? We do not! No longer!
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