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Posted by: maushammer on May 21, 2008 at 6:02 PM

Cool, I want one!! I've used a FLIR camera, but that's not too portable because it's mounted to a helicopter. Great for chasing bad guys, though - you can easily tell which cars were recently used because their hoods glow warm.

The Ti25 costs $7500. There's a Ti10 which is only $4500 -- it's basically the same as the Ti25, except that it can only measure temperature differences of 0.2C instead of 0.1C.

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"Needles to say it's pricey"

Needless*

"It's not maker-made, and I don't propose a remake -"

So why are you posting it, then? Thermal imagers are cool, yes, but we've all seen them. There is nothing new about a thermal imager. The MAKE blog is great, but you guys really need to stop with the rss reader clogging.

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Posted by: Collin Cunningham on May 21, 2008 at 8:23 PM

@maushammer - hoods glow warm, as do hiding figures - good stuff. Love the IR detective angle! unforch, the Ti10 still prohibitively costly - I'd be happy with a desktop version tho ;)

@bbot - I edited your post, please keep it clean and constructive.
Chin up - you're assuming an awful lot and missing the point!
You're viewpoint is not the same as everyone else's - I find overlaying conventional images with IR images to be technologically inspiring - if you do not, feel free to read the next post (RSS readers work well for that)

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One very fine application of this device is thermally scanning your house to see where it leaks warmth.

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Posted by: FreqCounter on May 22, 2008 at 4:35 AM

We have one of these at work for use in design of lab freezers and new uses seem to never end. I can finding an over stressed IC or take psycodelic photos of my dad on his tractor. I'm wishing my own eyes could see like this.

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Posted by: anachrocomputer on May 22, 2008 at 5:42 AM

This is a great idea, overlaying IR and visible-light images. Now, a long time ago I saw an IR camera which had germanium lenses (maybe 1979) and was told that ordinary glass is not transparent to IR at the wavelengths concerned. Sure enough, my glasses (and all my geek friends') were black in the IR images.

Would a Maker version of this kind of camera also need special germanium lenses? Hence, would it need two sets of lenses, one for IR and another for visible light?

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We purchased one of these to share with our fellow geeks here in Cincinnati as a way to collectively pay for the device. We will come to your location for $95 an hour to image whatever you want. We are also working on a pricing model we can rent it for $X per hour.

We primarily use it for home and small business thermal envelop evaluations, but it spends a great deal of time in my desk. Would love to get it into more peoples hands here locally...

Brent

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Got to play with one of these a bit at this year's Tech Expo in SoCal. Very cool. So many options, and yet so easy to use. I was impressed with how quickly it updated in response to extreme variations in temp. The only area it seems to have trouble with is areas with LOTS of lights.

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