I always wonder: how do you find the parts you need to build such things, and how do you make sure they fit together without spending enormous amounts of time in various online parts shops?
DIY thermal vision shoots 360° panoramas
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#12I always wanted to try to do this with RF wavelengths like 2.4 GHz.
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#13I built a similar, although much less sophisticated prototype at a hackathon a few months ago: https://github.com/fauria/thermoman-360 In case someone finds it useful, I published a Seeed Studio recipe: http://www.seeed.cc/Grove-MLX90614-p-1157.html and adapted an Arduino library: https://github.com/fauria/bildr-mlx90614 for the MLX90614.
Did Endesa / Opinno provided you with the hardware? Congrats for the prize, btw !
Thank you very much! No, I brought my own stuff, they provided the space, food, etc but no HW.
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#14This is really cool, given how expensive thermal cams can be. The main sensor used by the author (Melexis MLX90614) costs only ~14$ at my local retailer, you can probably get it a bit cheaper if you order online.
Flir and Seek have pretty good usb thermal cameras that attach to your smartphone for about $250 if you want something ready made
"Flir and Seek" sounds like the modern high-tech version of "Hide and Seek"... played using thermal cameras, of course.
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#15This guy did a hackier- and probably even cheaper - DIY camera a few month ago http://www.niklasroy.com/project/195/DIY_thermal_imaging
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#16I always wonder: how do you find the parts you need to build such things, and how do you make sure they fit together without spending enormous amounts of time in various online parts shops?
In my experience, either you get exposed to various parts at your workplace/college, or you stand on shoulders of similar projects.
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#17Holy moly! Two axis stepper motor controller for $67?! (You should check out the store connected with that site.) This reminds me I really need to finish my single-scanline CdS cell camera project...
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#18Nice project! This reminds me of a beautiful series of blog posts of a guy who built a single pixel pinhole thermal camera: First post: http://orbides.org/photobot.php?lng=eng&mode=making1 Sample image: http://orbides.org/photobot.php?lng=eng&mode=pic
Awesome project! Have to pimp it :)
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#19An alternative is the 8x8 Grid-EYE from Panasonic, costs around £30. The Melexis equivalent is a 16x4 which costs about the same. Note you'll need to fill in a fairly lengthy export/release form to get hold of the Grid-EYE sensors. I haven't had any problems ordering them from Farnell, just tell them what your project is. Both are fairly easy to talk to over I2C. You can make a passable wireless (low-res) thermal cam…
MLX90640 would be nice, but only for speed improvements. I would like to add additional lenses to improve resolution, but they are not cheap.