IR digital camera

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By Marc de Vinck
Posted 2008/04/05 @ 8:09 pm
Category Home, Photography & Video

MAKE was at the FIRST Robotics Competition over the weekend. One of the great things about going to these events is the people we meet. 16-year-old Matthew K. stopped by with his digital camera that he modified to shoot infrared pictures. Naturally, I asked if I could take a snapshot of Collin, one of our authors, to see how it worked. Pretty cool hack.

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4 Responses to IR digital camera

idea on April 7th, 2008 at 5:57 am said:

Use the media from a broken 3.5 floppy disk… it works just as well and is a TON less grainy

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Marc de Vinck on April 7th, 2008 at 6:00 am said:

@idea

Thanks for the tip!

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Aud1073cH on April 7th, 2008 at 11:41 am said:

Check out Bill Beaty’s pages on IR filters
http://amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html

I’ve made my own pair of IR goggles. I think I had to pay a little more than $10, because of the cost of the theatrical color filters. (smallest size 20″ x 24″) so
one sheet congo blue $7
one sheet medium red $7
cup style welding goggles $4

but I didn’t use all the gel (color filter), So there’s lots left over for making other things.
So I made an IR filter for a flash light as well.

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matthew k on April 7th, 2008 at 12:41 pm said:

I first posted this on the site that some of my friends run here http://fsg.gc-forums.com/index.php?showtopic=596&st=30 I’ve created a login for you MAKE people the login is in all caps MAKEZINE and the password is also in all caps MAKEZINE

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