rittermax
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Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for the feedback, it was indeed missleading to write it like that. I have improved the text as you have proposed it, so it is much clearer now what is required :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks a lot! That's super cool, very nice price tag, compact design, thanks for bringing it up :)
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks for mentioning the missing parts. It was so obvious that I missed it, they are now added ;)
You are right, Version 2 had a visual camera. However, the alignment between LWIR sensor and visual camera was never perfect and most people only used the thermal image feature OR they took photos with a smartphone and combined it in the Thermal Analysis Software (ThermoVision) on the PC later on. That's why I decided to remove the visual camera for V3 to reduce building complexity and costs.
Comment · 3 years ago
I know that affordable is a flexible term and the DIY-Thermocam might still be too expensive for some folks.
The predecessor of this device was called "Cheap-Thermocam" (https://web.archive.org/web/20121128040746/http://www.cheap-...) and it used a single-spot MLX90614 sensor to create a thermal image by combining the measurements.
Although the project is now 10 years old, there is a good writeup if anybody wants to build it: https://www.instructables.com/Thermal-Camera/
Comment · 3 years ago
Indeed, the predecessor of the DIY-Thermocam was called Cheap-Thermocam and built on the MLX90614. If you want to have a look, it is still available via the Wayback Time Machine (has been released 10 years ago): https://web.archive.org/web/20121128040746/http://www.cheap-...
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