Awesome Thermal Imager Turns Your iPhone or Android Into the Predator’s Eyes

This is so very cool : Andy Rawson has built a thermal imager for iPhone — and the Android version is coming before long too . It allows you to point your camera anywhere and have an instant temperature reading material of your environment .

The unit and accompanying program overlays 64 dissimilar temperature zone on your camera view in real meter . The effect is not only utile but 8 - bit cool too . He created this solution to detect heat relief valve breaker point in his sure-enough house because he could n’t yield the $ 2000 to $ 10,000 price tag of a professional caloric detector camera .

The best thing : he ’s make his thermal imager open - source . If you need one , it would only cost you $ 150 to make it , which is monkey nut compared to professional equipment . [ InstructablesviaRob HopelessviaEngadgetviaPetapixel ]