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by Entinel 1135 days ago
For the people saying "this isn't affordable," decent thermal cameras range in the thousands of dollars.
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DoingIsLearning 1135 days ago
It still isn't affordable. You can get a phone add-on from FLIR for $180/$200.

This is a great exercise in building stuff for yourself but not affordable at all.

The thousand of dollars cameras you refer to have very high resolutions which are really not the use case for the curious maker that would be interested in such a project.

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rittermax 1135 days ago
The DIY-Thermocam also works with the FLIR Lepton2.5, which is slightly cheaper (but has a lower resolution): https://store.groupgets.com/products/flir-lepton-2-5

But I agree that the price might be too steep for the curious maker who does not have a serious use-case that satisfies the investment on the long run

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DoingIsLearning 1135 days ago
Kudos for this project though. It is important to have well documented open source hardware in a as many field applications as possible.

This is still a great project for a lot of educational use cases e.g. thinking of universities and high schools who want to envolve students in the build process.

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