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FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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Re: FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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Post by smackfu »

hoopism wrote: post #10
smackfu wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From that indiegogo, this kind of thing always gives me pause: "We'll send you a Mµ Optics Thermal Imager for $125. ... This represents $200 off the MSRP."

Not endorsing... I just had looked into some options awhile back.

Oh, I was just talking about selling something at or below cost initially but then having a much higher MSRP, then saying that "clearly there's a market there." Just seems like a lot more people would buy this as a fun accessory at $125 than $300.

Re: FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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Post by vonmoltke »

smackfu wrote: post #3

Interesting that they aren't using the built-in iPhone camera for the visual spectrum part, but are still using their own. (FLIR uses a visual spectrum camera to do edge detection, and then overlays that on the IR image to make it easier to see what is going on.)

In addition to what fennecfoxen already stated, using their own visual sensor gives them control over the exact format of the data coming off the sensor, thus permitting them to use FPGA or ASIC based processing that would not be an option if they had to deal with image files coming off the iPhone's camera. It also allows them to collect extra data to help register the visual and IR images to each other.

Re: FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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Post by ynniv »

smackfu wrote: post #11
hoopism wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not endorsing... I just had looked into some options awhile back.

Oh, I was just talking about selling something at or below cost initially but then having a much higher MSRP, then saying that "clearly there's a market there." Just seems like a lot more people would buy this as a fun accessory at $125 than $300.

100% markup is pretty standard on nice hardware.

Re: FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5

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Post by bri3d »

hoopism wrote: post #4

Relevant: Turn cheap FLIR into expensive FLIR imager: http://hackaday.com/2013/11/04/manufacturer-crippled-flir-e4... Kickstart Phone Thermal Imaging: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mu-thermal-camera-a-great-... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andyrawson/ir-blue-therm...

The Mu Thermal Camera is almost certainly fake at this point. Check out the EEVBlog forum thread about it:

http://www.eevblog.com/forum/crowd-funded-projects/m-thermal...

They basically posted increasingly vague updates and no concrete information about the product.

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