The Weird Stuff blog shares ideas on unconventional tools that make the machine vision laboratory work more smoothly. Some of the ideas will be relevant to smaller machine vision businesses with limited budgets. Other ideas will apply to everyone in machine vision, even in larger enterprises with more robust budgets.
What can you do when you need some vacuum to hold a small part for viewing? If your lab is equipped with a vacuum line: no problem. If you happen to have an available vacuum pump (and these are available at very reasonable costs): again, no problem. But what if you have neither of these? Then you might turn to a food saver.
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The C47 is incredibly cheap and extremely useful, as is a wide array of clamps, in the machine vision laboratory. The C47 appears identical to an ordinary wooden clothespin. (I’ll let you in on a secret: they’re the same.)
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