DIY cheap thermal goggles
from alex_02@infosec.pub to hardware@infosec.pub on 07 Oct 2023 22:27
https://infosec.pub/post/3432946

Looks interesting and looks like it belongs in something like Akira or Bepop Cowboy or the Ghost in the Shell.

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seathru@lemm.ee on 07 Oct 2023 22:42 next collapse

Looks like a string of battery powered christmas lights taped to some welding goggles.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Oct 2023 23:14 next collapse

Probably nothing to do with thermal goggles tho right? Isnt that just a bunch of infrared LED’s and goggles with optical filters.

Maybe if you really stretch it, u could call it a night vision goggle movie prop. Thermal imaging doesnt work without digital sensor afaik?

jaykay@lemmy.zip on 07 Oct 2023 23:29 collapse

That would be my understanding. Otherwise we could just buy lenses for regular cameras to turn it thermal, which we can’t afafik

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Oct 2023 23:43 collapse

Thermal imaging is even highly regulated military grade stuff i think. u cant buy high resolution IR sensors, which is kinda sad.

SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz on 08 Oct 2023 00:33 next collapse

You can get reasonably high resolutions. They actually care more about high frame rates in terms of embargos/export restrictions.

The main issue is they start to get ridiculously expensive

gazter@aussie.zone on 10 Oct 2023 00:40 collapse

I thought that thermal imaging and IR sensors were basically the same thing? Or at least, that thermal imaging was the process of using IR sensors to create an image.

I looked at one for work, basically a cctv camera that could measure the temperature of things in our storeroom. It was under 2k, from memory, with a lot of that price being the pan/tilt/zoom gubbins.

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 Oct 2023 08:37 collapse

Yeah its the same thing but as previously said getting them at high resolution and framerate is the hard thing. The commonly available stuff has like 100x100 pixels and maybe like 5 Hz refreshrate or something like that.

einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de on 08 Oct 2023 01:33 collapse

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