Our world through the eyes of a Thermal Imager
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StarHalo
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Awesome stuff, can't wait to see some of the flashlight applications of your new toy.
And congrats on resisting the urge to image yourself farting, sort of a prerequisite for thermal cam owners..
And congrats on resisting the urge to image yourself farting, sort of a prerequisite for thermal cam owners..
hank
Flashlight Enthusiast
And here's the $60 version, homebuilt using -- a RGB flashlight! No kidding, this is amazing.
I remember the founder of Arc writing about various ideas for making flashlights communicate -- changing the output based on something happening at the user's end (like speaking aloud), and with a detector so you could point your flashlight at some other data source far off and have it pick up whatever it was doing to modulate its light beam as well -- 2 way communication by light modulation. Didn't happen (that I know of).
This is sort of halfway there
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/01/...shlight-could-improve-home-insulation013.html
Parts list at the link.
http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/thermal-camera
Thermal Flashlight
The first approach results in a kind of "light painting" -- a color heatmap overlaid directly onto the scene. This is the simplest, cheapest, and to date, most effective way we have developed of measuring heat leaks or cool leaks indoors and outdoors. Simply put, the "flashlight" puts out red light if it's pointed at something hot (default 75 deg F or more) and blue light if it's pointed at something cold *(default 60 deg F or less):
Using a Thermal Flashlight
To capture the light painting over time, we have been using timelapse photography or GlowDoodle, as seen in the top image on this page ..."
I remember the founder of Arc writing about various ideas for making flashlights communicate -- changing the output based on something happening at the user's end (like speaking aloud), and with a detector so you could point your flashlight at some other data source far off and have it pick up whatever it was doing to modulate its light beam as well -- 2 way communication by light modulation. Didn't happen (that I know of).
This is sort of halfway there
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/01/...shlight-could-improve-home-insulation013.html
Parts list at the link.
http://publiclaboratory.org/tool/thermal-camera
Thermal Flashlight
The first approach results in a kind of "light painting" -- a color heatmap overlaid directly onto the scene. This is the simplest, cheapest, and to date, most effective way we have developed of measuring heat leaks or cool leaks indoors and outdoors. Simply put, the "flashlight" puts out red light if it's pointed at something hot (default 75 deg F or more) and blue light if it's pointed at something cold *(default 60 deg F or less):
Using a Thermal Flashlight
To capture the light painting over time, we have been using timelapse photography or GlowDoodle, as seen in the top image on this page ..."
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PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
Fascinating photos! Thanks for sharing these, Entrope.
samgab
Flashlight Enthusiast
I want one.
I have a FLIR infrared camera I use for building inspections, and by coincidence, yesterday, I was about to shoot some pics of a flashlight or two warming up. I'm amazed that you were inspired to shoot IR images as well....except you DID it, and, you are artistic as well.
I'm more autistic than artistic...but if you would like me to contribute to the thread, I would be happy to add to the collection here.
I'm more autistic than artistic...but if you would like me to contribute to the thread, I would be happy to add to the collection here.
PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
pavithra_uk
Newly Enlightened
How much cost these thermal imaging cameras ? (minimum price)
PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
The cheapest that I've seen a used one for on Ebay was around $1200.
aimxplode
Enlightened
entrope said:
Is that a Maserati?
PhotonWrangler
Flashaholic
It must be a car because the upper right corner of the image says "auto." :laughing:
