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The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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Re: The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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Is there something specific about the camera in the Iphone that would preclude doing a similar thing to android phones? Or is it just a matter of uniformity of the housing?

It does not use the iPhone's camera, I think due to parallax problems. It has both an IR and visible light camera side by side. This means it can take both a thermal and visible image and overlay them, so you can compare or something.

Re: The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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I got one of these to debug thermal leakage. I very much like it. Here's a shot of my laptop: http://bochs.info/img/IMG_0676-20140822-211311.png If anyone's curious about something specific, I'll gladly take requests for photos. It's super interesting to see things from a temperature perspective.

What's the max image resolution of the thermal-only and thermal with photo overlay pic?

Re: The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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I got one of these to debug thermal leakage. I very much like it. Here's a shot of my laptop: http://bochs.info/img/IMG_0676-20140822-211311.png If anyone's curious about something specific, I'll gladly take requests for photos. It's super interesting to see things from a temperature perspective.

What's the max image resolution of the thermal-only and thermal with photo overlay pic?

The photos I've been taking come out as 535x401. It looks like the visible light camera it uses is just VGA (640x480), but the thermal camera resolution is probably the bottleneck anyway.

Re: The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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Is there something specific about the camera in the Iphone that would preclude doing a similar thing to android phones? Or is it just a matter of uniformity of the housing?

That is probably precisely the reason why it's not available for Android, there are hundreds of different physical form factors and many more configurations.

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What's the max image resolution of the thermal-only and thermal with photo overlay pic?

The photos I've been taking come out as 535x401. It looks like the visible light camera it uses is just VGA (640x480), but the thermal camera resolution is probably the bottleneck anyway.

Can you take a thermal-only picture too?

The cheapest FLIR camera so far has a (afaik) 240x240 low resolution IR sensor. So they maybe combine an upscaled IR image over an actual VGA camera photo.

Re: The FLIR One, a heat camera for the iPhone, is now available

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$349

Wanted something like this the other day to see how heat was moving around a server room...

Most people use an infrared thermometer 'gun' for this. You can buy them at Home Depot...
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