I mentioned before that the wife had bought me a new 24" VIZIO Smart TV for my bench. All I wanted was a monitor for the microscope camera but it is far more. Cranked up the Amazon credit card sucking machine and got an articulated arm for it. It fits perfect. The arm platform for the soldering station fits right under it without interference. Second picture shows it pulled forward but not nearly as far as it can go and it can turn to face me at full extension. The workspace is getting better and better.
I'll recommend that you do (or research online) a color rendering/color gamut test on your new acquisition while you can still return it. TVs usually make poor monitors as they are designed around a limited color reproduction range. The panels are actually different, as are the driving electronics and software. Documents and all-digital video (like that from your microscope camera) will tend to be pretty potato-looking, with poor contrast and color over/under-saturation and artifacts like ghosting/haloing of bright objects.
There's a reason gaming monitors cost so much more, and it isn't JUST marketing; it's different technology.
The defects can be pretty subtle; that's why I'm recommending you research this NOW and be very critical of it while the no-quibble return window is still open, and before you get too attached. Displays sold as being "good for everything" are usually crap-to-barely-passable at any single task.
Ever have a problem keeping your wood stiff Friday Night - Time to go drink Beer and eat food at the Pub
Aww, man... so close, and then the last accordion section broke.
Will you be able to epoxy it back together inconspicuously, or will you have to make another 2nd panel? Other than this painful example of the usual CNC/laser pitfalls though, pretty effing nifty.
:bull shit:*It will probably be a cold day in hell before I get fiber in my hood.
Not in my lifetime either.
We actually have a fiber run 5m from the front of the house and are supposed to get access to it this month. Generally Oz is getting fiber to a node point then copper but we got luckier than most. Still a bastardised system thanks to the muppets in power
Local villages are in the process of getting FTTP installed using overhead fibre on poles. Lots of splice chambers, plastic widgets to coil excess cable without inducing microbending, and connectorised distribution points appearing overhead. The CDPs are made by Corning and use their 'Opti-Tip' weatherproof connectors. Our village has cabling in ducts, though, so I don't expect to see anything better than FTTC here. There were plans to install a new 'fill-in' cabinet/DSLAM locally to me to reduce the copper length, but BT Openreach managed to screw up the planning application paperwork.
All this is to meet the March 2020 deadline for 'universal' 10Mb/s access...
Yeah, as opposed to here where we get "unlimited 100Mb/s" service that's really 5Mb up and damifino down depending on the carrier's mood.
* Okay... I think maybe it's time to get rid of this effing Redragon Mouse and shitpost it on Amazon. It has something wrong with the driver where it will randomly highlight something NOT in the current dialog box and bring it into whatever you're currently typing, as it just did above, now highlighted in red. I thought it was probably just my ancient upgrade-over-upgrade build of Windoze, but it persists even with the brand-new fresh install on my SSD.
My personal confuser is enough of a PITA already, without my mouse literally injecting BULLSHIT into what I'm writing. mnem
You may now commence with [insert BS-dwagon joke here]...