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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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Post by IshKebab »

omegant wrote: post #34
frik wrote: post #17

Interesting. As a FLIR camera used to be expensive, I built my own thermal IR camera for $120 (2011): http://oi60.tinypic.com/2820yg2.jpg

Do you have a tutorial?

Probably a scanning IR thermometer. Not really the same thing...

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

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Post by IshKebab »

jacquesm wrote: post #10

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?

I believe I read somewhere that they are working on Android versions.

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

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drazvan wrote: post #46
jacquesm wrote: post #10

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?

Like this? http://therm-app.com/

$999 is a bit pricey I think.

You can buy a pro-sumer device for that money:

http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/flir/e-series/e4.htm

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

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Post by Gracana »

lunixbochs wrote: post #9
Gracana wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What am I seeing on the right below the LCD, is that the backlight driver?

I think it's the CPU's heatsink/fan. The warm cable on the left is a thunderbolt ethernet adaptor.

Oh a cable, of course. I thought I was looking at hot air blowing out from a vent on the side.

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

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Post by drazvan »

jacquesm wrote: post #47
drazvan wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like this? http://therm-app.com/

$999 is a bit pricey I think. You can buy a pro-sumer device for that money: http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/flir/e-series/e4.htm

Well, the Opgal device has a resolution of 384 x 288 while the E4 lists 80x60. It's probably worth the asking price.

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

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Post by chuckledog »

marvin wrote: post #30

Just a note on UX and visualization: Mapping temperature to a color/wavelength is not the perceptually best way to convey data. Humans are not good at estimating the distance between two data points when using a rainbow color scale. Using luminosity would be much better, or even a color scheme that uses saturation. See e.g. http://colorbrewer2.org/ . Different schemes are perceptually good to use depending on whether…

I had a chance to try out the flir one for a day. Pretty sweet but not perfect. It has a number of color scales prominently featured in the iPhone UI. Grayscale might match lumosity.

I used "contrast" to quickly identify hot / cold parts of my house, then "spot meter" to measure the actual temp. Found out part of my attic is not insulated. That's money going out through the roof.

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