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Inexpensive Thermal Camera

Posted by healthyfatboy on March 22, 2011 at 6:09pm

I don't know how useful this would be but I thought it would be something that could be attached to a quadrotor to do some thermal analysis for a home to determine how to increase the efficiency of the heating and cooling systems by reducing the losses around windows and doors.

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(Image pulled from his website)

Here's where to find more information.

http://www.cheap-thermocam.tk/

 

I'm tempted to get the materials just to run it to see how my house is!

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  • MarcS March 23, 2011 at 1:09am
    Hi, this reminded me of an experiment done some time ago.
    With a thermopile based autopilot, you can actually peform such a scan using the vertical sensor (on another scale, of corse...). Could be used to detect a fire for example.
    Some results can be see on page 6 of this paper:
    http://www.cost-uas.net/fileadmin/user_upload/articles/s4.pdf

    And so everyone switching to IMU has a reuse for the old thermopiles :-) Cool
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    Gary Mortimer March 22, 2011 at 10:30pm
    Thats a cool,no pun intended concept wonder where that idea will end up
  • Darren March 22, 2011 at 7:47pm
    with guided tracking, you could do swift scans find a hot spot and slow down and do detailed scans.
  • Michael March 22, 2011 at 7:46pm
    Could that be adapted to give something like Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR)?  I'm thinking for search and rescue work.
  • bGatti March 22, 2011 at 7:42pm
    We built similar (web cam/ therm / servo / arduino) with face finding software to measure temperatures automatically. It's a fun project.
  • Darren March 22, 2011 at 7:33pm
    alot can change over the course of time it took to make that picture with thier theckniqe
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