I have one from amazon with full size USB and have used it with my phone thru an OTG adapter. I like with this one that it has micro USB with the adapter for PC.
These cheap USB bore scopes just act like generic USB webcams. When you plug in a USB webcam to an OTG equipped android device it overrides the secondary camera on the device.
These USB bore scopes have a few nice advantages over the ones with their own screens: Cheap Portable You can save images/record video
I have a cheap one with it's own built in screen....probably about the same resolution. It's ok for what it is. Serves a purpose...but don't expect huge amounts of detail.
Side note: If USB ____ said works on PC.... Many work only w/ 32bit OS. I seen Web cams, SD readers, etc, say work w/ Win7 but left out the fact only w/ 32 bit x86, not 64 bit x64.
This is why I keep a copy of WinXP alive as VM to use Devices that don't have 64 bit drivers.
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Originally posted by Neils88: Serves a purpose...but don't expect huge amounts of detail.
Plenty of detail!
It turns out an update on my phone allowed me to use my borescope. This is a cheap $14 one found all over eBay.
This is what it looks like with the light on, the glare from the light is making the image milky and I had no light to adjust the brightness. Bees are attracted to lights so bringing a flashlight out with me would not have been a good idea. The light on the camera eventually made the bees swarm all over it, blocking the camera.
Bees balled up, 11pm 44° outside.
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I used mine to find a leak in a hose running under the supercharger in my XJR. It saved me from having to remove the SC. I also used it find a leak in a hose on a friend's Volvo's turbo, which allowed us to order the right hose the first time and be confident in the repair. I bought it for and initially used it to confirm the diagnosis from a leakdown tester on our race car - leakdown said it was a bottom end problem, boroscope confirmed a dime-sized hole in the piston. Ooops.
I've had it for about five years and rarely use it, but those few times it's really saved a lot of time. For $15, it's certainly worth having around.
Edit: Oh yeah - I also used it to inspect the condition of the cat on a Jetta I flipped. And I snaked it into the door panel of a BMW to find out why the side airbag fault kept setting (answer: someone had removed the airbag!)
Never used one on a car, but used them lots of times to inspect blades on fully assembled gas turbine engines back in the late 70s. Tedious and the units were very expensive back then.
Funny, I just saw this thread, after posting a video to my build thread just yesterday. I paid $17 for the Endoscope from Wish.com. Plugs right into my Samsung Note 3, no adapter or OTG cable needed) and can take pictures and record from the camera. No issues with it as of yet.
