{"id":446,"date":"2011-05-28T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2011-05-28T15:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T13:21:43","slug":"infrared-camera-in-7-steps-diy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/?p=446","title":{"rendered":"Infrared Camera in 7 steps ( DIY )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hi fellows,<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve actually done this a couple of weeks ago but i had no time to blog about it.I&#8217;ll try to explain how it&#8217;s done and what to be careful about step by step.<br \/>\n1-Get your webcam<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-447 alignnone\" title=\"20110528_004\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_004-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n2- Remove the lens<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-448 alignnone\" title=\"20110528_005\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_005-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n3- Remove lens cover<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-449\" title=\"20110528_007\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_007-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n4-Pull out glasses<br \/>\nWarning : Becareful about the order and the orientation of the glasses.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-450\" title=\"20110528_011\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_011-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n5-Put all glasses back inside except for that red tinted one which is the infrared filter.<br \/>\nWarning : Becareful to put glasses as in the order and the orientation they were in the step 4.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-451\" title=\"20110528_014\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_014-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n6-Reassemble the lens back into the webcam.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-452\" title=\"20110528_016\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n7-Your Infrared Cam. is ready to go Plug the usb and see the difference by testing it with a tv remote controller etc. .<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-453\" title=\"20110528_017\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_017-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTest :<br \/>\nHere you can see the unfiltered IR light.But it&#8217;s more than useless in the daylight as you can see.If you wanna see how it would look like in the dark check out the photos taken after <a href=\"#fout\">Filtering Out Visible Colors<\/a> mod.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/filterremoved.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-456\" title=\"filterremoved\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/filterremoved-300x223.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Optional modification:<\/h3>\n<h4><span id=\"fout\" style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Filtering out the Visible Colors<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Sometimes filtering out visible colors might be useful.For instance if you are working on Computer Vision; you can get a very clear image of a IR light source by filtering out the visible colors.<br \/>\nMaterials:<br \/>\nTape<br \/>\nCamera Film ( This is the key material here it filters out the visible colors and only allows IR light to pass through )<\/p>\n<p>1-Crop a little piece from the film.<br \/>\n2-Place it in the middle of the tape.<br \/>\n3-Then tape it onto camera and make sure the film covers the aperture of the lens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-454\" title=\"20110528_018\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_018-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-455\" title=\"20110528_019\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/20110528_019-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/colorfiltered.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-474\" title=\"colorfiltered\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/colorfiltered.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So why i did this? I was pretty impressed by<a href=\"http:\/\/johnnylee.net\/projects\/wii\/\"> Johnny Lee&#8217;s Implementations with Wiimote<\/a>. Well i was hoping to develop such Augmented Reality Projects etc. with it.But it turned out that the 320*240px low. resolution camera is a little inefficient to do that.That&#8217;s why <em>Lee <\/em>uses Wiimote which has a 1024*768px resolution camera and specifically designed hardware to detect multiple blobs.But wait lets not disappoint you if you have such a low res. cam and already done the steps above.Low resolution camera happens to be a problem only in the Touch Surface Implementation but it&#8217;s ok with other projects like HeadTracking etc.<\/p>\n<h4>Why it is a problem in Touch Surface implementation?<\/h4>\n<p>In the photo below i tried to explain the loss of sensitivity in position data as the coordinates warped.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/exp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-457\" title=\"exp\" src=\"http:\/\/mclightning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/exp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hi fellows, i&#8217;ve actually done this a couple of weeks ago but i had no time to blog about it.I&#8217;ll try to explain how it&#8217;s done and what to be careful about step by step. 1-Get your webcam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[57,75,82,143,300,311],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy","category-hobby-rc","tag-camera","tag-computer-vision","tag-cv","tag-infrared","tag-surface","tag-touch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maximusabrams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}