Bluetooth 4

Just a quick update, the Bluetooth 4 BLE kit version is coming along well. I've milled the first prototype PCBs and have been testing them. I still have a few tweaks to make and then I will send off for some manufactured PCBs to test. This is a mostly through hole kit layout, I also have a surface mount only layout that will be ready after the kit. I will get the files for these posted as soon as I finish testing.

 

 

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.

Thermal Imaging Phone Camera

http://www.instructables.com/id/Thermal-Imaging-Phone-Camera/

Thermal Imaging Phone Camera

I have a 100 year old house that can be drafty and hard to heat in the winter. I have been wanting a thermal imaging camera to help find leaks ever since we bought this house. So I finally just made my own.The temperature readings are overlaid onto the phone's camera display. The display is adjustable for different temperature ranges and can show the numeric reading for every zone or just 1.