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If you want to check your house for hot air leaks, take pictures of the heat coming off a rack of equipment, or just chase the most dangerous animal, [Arnie], through the jungles of central america, a thermal imaging camera is your friend. These devices normally cost a few thousand dollars, but the team behind the Mu Thermal Camera managed to get the price down to about $300. The basic idea … [Read more...]
[Art Barrios] kept having night-time visitors who were raiding his dog's food storage bin. It's a plastic tub with a lid that latches but the critters were knocking it over and popping that lid off. He wanted to find out which animal was the culprit so he hacked together an automatic camera system using an old cellphone. You can see the majority of the hardware he used in the image above. … [Read more...]
Your Raspberry Pi has on-board connectors for cameras and displays, but until now no hardware demigod has taken up the challenge of connecting an image sensor or LCD to one of these ports. It seems everyone is waiting for official Raspi hardware designed for these ports. That wait is just about over as the Raspberry Pi foundations is hoping to release a camera board in the coming weeks. The … [Read more...]
Check out the toy this solder is using. It's a tiny remote-controlled helicopter. The thing comes in a kit that includes a small tablet through which the nose-mounted camera image can be viewed. These are in use in Afghanistan by the UK Military. The purpose is to help protect foot soldiers by allowing them to perform discrete reconnaissance. What would you pay for this type of life saving … [Read more...]
Odds are you don't have a photographic memory, so if you ever have to mace someone, you probably won't remember exactly what your attacker looks like. Compound that with talking to the police and looking at a few dozen mug shots, and it's highly unlikely you'll ever be able to identify the person you maced. This was the problem [John], [Cordelia], and [Adrian] chose to solve for [Bruce Land]'s … [Read more...]
Raspberry Pi's answer to the iMac If you always wanted a sweet looking all-in-one computer like an iMac, but without OSX this one's for you. [Michael Davis] glued everything you need for a Raspberry Pi computer to the back of an LCD monitor. Dancing Japanese robot shows high creepiness factor You've just got to see this one to believe it. Someone choreographed some seriously … [Read more...]
Panoramic photos are nice, however a full 360 degree x 180 degree, or spherical panorama would be even better. [Caleb Anderson] decided to take this concept much further, attempting to extract panoramic photos from video taken at 100,000 feet using a high-altitude balloon and six GoPro cameras. The overview of this project can be found here, and gives some background. The first task was to … [Read more...]
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