Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Open Source info for the TIPIC

The what? TIPIC, Thermal Imaging Phone I....uh Camera. OK, I'm horrible with names for my projects. Any ideas? I'll give a free Thermal Imaging Phone Camera Accessory thing when they are ready to the person that comes up with the best name.

Yum!
Anyway, on to the Open Source Hardware thing. Phil Torrone's article The Unspoken Rules of Open Source Hardware has some very good information on what seems to be the current state of OSHW, or possibly how it should be anyway. There are also some good points in a response by Ian Lesnet in A Culture of Ethics In Open Source Hardware. So I am trying to be a good community member and share info on my projects while still trying to make a living at OSHW. We'll see how it goes!

What I have for you today is the Arduino code I used in the video. It is available at github.com/RHWorkshop/TIPIC-Arduino It still needs a lot of work but I wanted to get a prototype working for the Instructables contest. Also, a quick Fritzing sketch of the bread board for this is here. I will have the iPhone code posted very soon I just have to clean up a lot of confusing and or unused stuff. It will be available at github.com/RHWorkshop in a day or two.


Update: The iPhone code is now available at github.com/RHWorkshop/TIPIC-iPhone-Wyfly



The rig to make the video with.

Posted by Unknown at 12:56 AM
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8 comments:

  1. YKSeptember 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM

    How about Thermafon cam? or Thermafon? Thermalfon?

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  2. UnknownSeptember 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM

    Hi Andy,
    I am a mechanical engineer with a product development company. Shoot me an email if you are interested in partnering on this and make this into a commercial product.

    Cheers,
    Simon

    simon@blackda.com

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  3. UnknownSeptember 6, 2012 at 2:56 AM

    Here's mine:

    iThermocam or simply Thermocam
    Infracam
    Infraphone

    Good luck!

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  4. UnknownSeptember 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM

    I would suggest CHID:

    Cheap
    Homemade
    Infra-Red
    Device

    or CHIT:

    Cheap
    Homemade
    Imager for
    Thermals

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  5. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    Following suit with the industry:
    MTIC

    Mobile
    Thermal
    Imaging
    Camera

    I would be honored to receive one of these units. If you don't pick me, please send me details for purchasing one.

    Thank you.

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  6. M-ByteSeptember 25, 2012 at 4:02 AM

    How about naming it after pit vipers? They are some of the few animals with thermal imaging abilities.

    So I would suggest a name along the lines of Crotalus, Crotalida, Ovophis, Scytalus, Thanatos, Copperhead (though english names work better as codenames), etc.

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  7. UnknownOctober 5, 2012 at 4:12 PM

    how about heatcam, money saver cam or mscam,

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  8. WGLJOctober 8, 2012 at 8:40 AM

    I was thinking irCam or irHot, iRiS for infraRed imaging System.

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