augmented microscope

the basic peppers ghost scheme (taken from wiki)

the setup

had couple of problems with this one 

mostly illumination differences between

the microscope and the lcd screen

the perspex seems to double the picture -

might be solved with tint filter or swapping the perspex 

with a thin glass beamsplitter or ar coating

resolution wise numbers was pretty clear at 800 x 600
thinking about adding a button
to act as a shutter for the screen (on/off)

the setup:
the oscilloscope is hooked through the vga port
to a small lcd display that is mounted to the peppers ghost setup
where the transparent part of the peppers ghost (perspex sheet)
is placed at the view screen of the microscope

some photos (it actually looks much better in real life)

the peppers ghost periscope


testing the setup

without tint sticker

with tint sticker

some videos (it actually looks much better in real life)

without tint sticker

using a car tint sticker (applied poorly) did the trick
and solved the double reflection of the lcd in the above video
while not disturbing the actual image when the lcd backlight was off

with tint sticker

with tint sticker

for future development i would like to try 

adding a camera and or a microphone for interactive control 

image processing (probe gesture) or sound (click sound)

or show an overlay image only when a signal is being detected 

lcd backlight triggering / oscilloscope dmm triggering follow a click sound 

maybe hooking a foot switch, eye tracking camera and so on...

augmented oscilloscope

the basic peppers ghost scheme (taken from wiki)

just an idea i had

of using peppers ghost illusion for electronics debugging

aiming a camera to the instrument that will be used
such as oscilloscope dmm or anything else
and displaying it on the transparent display

lcd screen with perspex at 45 degree angle (mirrored image)

aim the cameras to the desired instruments and display it on the screen

how it looks trough the perspex

i actually used a bigger setup (screen and perspex)

but with the same configuration

one disadvantage is that i didnt used the complete illusion setup

only one perspex so the actual image was mirrored 

some videos (looks better in real life)

for a better setup i would have use the complete peppers ghost setup

a bright screen / projector a mirror at 45 degree and a sheet of glass

and for the golden ticket use a transparent touch panel for easier control