My first post here, and I'm going to hype my company and its products. I hope you will go easy on me - I'm assured that what we make is of interest to the DIY Drones community!
My company, DRS Technologies, manufactures a small Infrared Thermal camera called the Tamarisk 320.
The camera has a resolution of 320x240, is smaller than a golfball, weighs less than 35g and consumes <1W of power.
For the past couple of years we have run the DRS Student Infrared Imaging Competition. The SIIC is an open-format, incentive prize competition for students who use thermal infrared imaging in a creative way. The top project wins $10,000. For this, the competition’s second year, there is an additional prize category for “Most Viral Video.” This year DRS received 25 entries, of which 17 include a video for the viral competition.
Videos range from art projects to drone projects, and all kinds of odd and novel topics in between...
The viral video playlist is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc9AEfe3kcGNiY5cPHvHijawse791...
...and competition details are available at:
http://www.drsinfrared.com/studentcomp.aspx
Let me know what you think.
Regards,
Daniel
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I have been looking for past few years for such thing in Internet junkyard but haven't had the luck I had for Sony box camera(FCB-EX480LP)which was <=75$. IMHO 500$ for one component (though vital) is at the border of DIY hobby budget end for average UAV enthusiast without getting kicked out the house. Hopefully I will find one before you find the sweet spot ;)
Forget the sweetspot on pricing...just make them affordable.
pick and pull junkyard contest
Daniel, I think a lot of people are going to be pretty excited by this news, myself included. This is a good market for you to be in. Lots of innovators around these parts and they tell it how it is. We all want this and soon but also realize that most won't be buyers until this goes through a couple of evolutions and the price comes down. We will all be watching and waiting for our chance to explore this and share it.
The cheaper the better!
The small FLIR cameras of similar quality are ~$2.4k. That's what you're going to competing against.
When we see these cameras sub $1k I bet a number of us will jump. Very interested in adding this to my UAS platform
Your applications in the videos are interesting, some I didn't even consider like the cave holes.
I know Monroe. You will see prices come down rapidly over the next year or two.
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