{"id":6429,"date":"2014-12-09T22:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6429"},"modified":"2014-12-09T22:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:33:44","slug":"thermal-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6429","title":{"rendered":"Thermal selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I became a proud owner of a new smartphone attachment: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thermal.com\/\">thermal camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I long wanted to have a thermal camera, but the prices were frivolously high. One of the cheapest cameras from FLIR, for instance, the TG165, costs five hundred dollars and has a measly 80 x 60 pixel sensor resolution. FLIR has a smartphone thermal camera attachment that&#8217;s cheaper, but its resolution is also low, and it only works with the iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thermal.com\/\">Seek Thermal camera attachment<\/a> costs only two hundred bucks and has a 206 x 156 pixel sensor, which is quite decent, insofar as thermal sensors go. And it works with Android phones, notably my Samsung S3. Better yet, much to my delight I found out that the device is actually manufactured in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>So I knew immediately what I wanted for Christmas. Okay, it arrived a little early, but that&#8217;s okay. It is a lovely little device, nicely packaged, looks very well\u00a0manufactured, with a protective jewel case for safe storage when not in use.<\/p>\n<p>And this is what I look in the infrared:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6430\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_thermal-949245107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_thermal-949245107.jpg 312w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/img_thermal-949245107-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lovely mugshot, isn&#8217;t it.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6429' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I became a proud owner of a new smartphone attachment: a thermal camera. I long wanted to have a thermal camera, but the prices were frivolously high. One of the cheapest cameras from FLIR, for instance, the TG165, costs five hundred dollars and has a measly 80 x 60 pixel sensor resolution. FLIR has <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=6429' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology","category-35-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6429\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}