I have a usb-powered portable microscope that works great on my computer, but I'd also like to use it in the field with my iPad... will this work?
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Janice:I purchased this item to charge my iPhone 4S and found that it shut off charging at a level below 85% without warning. Depending on the level of charge on the battery, it would often refuse to start charging. I suspect it is NOT Apple specification compliant. I would NOT trust it for field use unless you have a backup approach that IS reliable for your iPad. If charging is NOT your plan, but you need it to communicate with the Microscope from the iPad (video transfer) then it might work for you.Best regards,John
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Do you intend to connect the microscope to the iPad and see the output on the iPad? If so, I seriously doubt it would work but I could be wrong. This is intended to be used to charge an Apple device and not for video transfer. However, if there is a specific app that is designed to work with the microscope then it might do the trick. Sorry that I can't be more definitive.
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I had the same question and did some digging on the oregon scientific website and it says it's not compatible with Mac :(
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Yes. Mac OS X 10.5 or above. I have a Mac with windows installed along with OS X, it works on both. I'm pretty sure there are better microscopes but depending on what you are using it for it works and is pretty cheap. I give it a 7.5 out of 10. It doesnt suck but I wasn't overly impressed. Good Luck.
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I do know that it has a USB and my ipad mini does not. I believe you need to have a laptop or pc
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not directly, the optional camera can capture an image and then use it but the Microscope itself cannot connect directly to a PC. It is still an awesome value...
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Yes, the Digi Tool works on my iPad so I would assume it would work on the mini. Some of the tools might be too big, but the basics would work fine.
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This oxymeter only connects to a PC using the mini USB connector. It's not compatible with iPod or iPad.
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Yes. This should work with iPads as well. Nothing special about this, it's a 2-Amp USB port.
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Folks, why post a response if you don't know the correct answer? The correct answer is No, it won't work with an iPad. It has nothing to do with whether the iPad has a USB port or not--you can actually get USB host port adapters for flash drives and such--but rather with the fact that iOS has no concept of a mouse pointer. Android does, and either connecting a USB mouse or pairing a Bluetooth mouse makes a traditional mouse pointer appear on screen. But neither the iPhone nor the iPad support that, period. So don't get this mouse for an iPad.
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Sorry i missed the part that you need to buy a convertor to USB since IPAD has to USB port
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It will work with a PC or Mac, you may be able to view files on an iPhone using another app but I've never tried that.
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as far as the PC side goes, it works like any other normal flash drive. so its safe to say it will work on any OS, windows or mac etc. for ipad, its irrelevant, because apple products dont have a micro usb port in them. if you want a flash drive to work with your ipad, you can buy any normal flash drive and an ipad OTG cable, provided you ipad does have OTG support.
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You would need an eyepiece mount for you camera. You can actually take pictures with you cell phone camera by just holding it up to the eyepiece. In both cases however your field of view will be reduced. I would highly recommend one of the Amscope cameras that are designed for the scope. For about $100 you can get one that will take excellent images and even good quality video. In fact, I leave my camera permanently in one of the eyepieces and scan slides using my pc screen and rarely look through the microscope with my eyes anymore. You want to get a camera with a low lux rating that has a small lag time from slide movement to screen movement.But to answer your original question, there is no direct usb or any other digital interface to the microscope itself.
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No. Think of the microscope just like a webcam you'd plug into your PC. Your USB camera, microscope, and USB stick are all peripheral devices and need a master/host device to read/take data from them. It would be like trying to plug your webcam into your memory stick (aside from the fact that the connectors would not allow it, even if you just plugged them both into a USB hub, you still need a PC). And honestly, it is more complicated than all that anyway. You'll need the software Omax supplies with the microscope to run on your PC to take the camera data from the microscope, format it, process it, etc. Only after that can you save the data off into either JPG or BMP formats for pictures or WMV (I might have the video format wrong) for video. And FWIW, trying to anticipate your next question, while not familiar with many tablets other than the few I own (but there are many and the definition seems blurred), I have not seen a tablet that could do it. If you want to use the camera, you will need whatever hosts the microscope to be a Windows PC running Windows 7. I cannot speak for whether later versions of windows work.
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it won't work with my ipad at all. The only use I get out of it is as a regular USB drive on my computer.
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USB cable that comes with the unit will connect to your iPad. FYI though, the bluetooth connectivity on my unit was pretty bad. Frequently drops across a large open room. I'd stay away.
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I don't think you can- you need the iborescope app, which runs on iOS or Android devices. I looked, can't find the Macbook Pro (which I have) app equivalent. It does work easily with my iPhone and iPad!