Currently, the microscope is hooked up to a Fire Phone with a 3D printed adapter I designed (here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1470646) and running a live stream to Youtube via the IP Webcam Pro app (here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pas.webcam.pro&hl=en&gl=us) using Xsplit Broadcaster free running on a desktop PC, and a program to convert the IP camera live feed to a virtual webcam for use with Xsplit. Current issues are latency and reliability; the live stream is around 20? seconds behind real time view, and sometimes crashes or gets stuck on a static image.

To Do: Hunt down 2 floppy drive motors and wire up to a stepper driver with an Arduino running GRBL to test the feasibility of the X/Y positioner. After verifying the basic functionality, I will design a custom X/Y carriage that can be 3D printed and will work with a standard disk drive/camera motor stepper from eBay. I purchased the following:

Main long axis stage (qty 1): http://www.ebay.com/itm/182071687426

Short or long axis stage (qty 2): http://www.ebay.com/itm/262136734214

Short axis stage (qty 3): http://www.ebay.com/itm/121934710060

Stepper driver (qty 5): http://www.ebay.com/itm/381655454577

Stepper for focus knob (qty 3): http://www.ebay.com/itm/111901908529

After that will be putting together an ESP8266 controller board with 3 stepper drivers and USB power, and writing a program to allow web control of the X/Y position and focus.