15c0:0005 — 3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2) (XL Imaging)

What is this device?

This is the USB identifier for a 3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2) manufactured by XL Imaging. The vendor ID 15c0 is registered to XL Imaging with the USB Implementers Forum, and 0005 is the product ID that XL Imaging assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 15c0:0005 XL Imaging 3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2).

How to identify it on your system

Linux

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 15c0:0005 XL Imaging 3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2)

You can filter directly with lsusb -d 15c0:0005, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 15c0:0005. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=15c0, idProduct=0005.

Windows

In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:

USB\VID_15C0&PID_0005
USB\VID_15C0&PID_0005&REV_0100

From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_15C0&PID_0005"

macOS

$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
    3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2):
      Product ID: 0x0005
      Vendor ID: 0x15c0  (XL Imaging)

Driver help

Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.

Raw usb.ids entry

The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:

15c0  XL Imaging
	0005  3M pixel Microscope Camera (Mk 2)

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