Gopro IR Night Vision Camera Upgrade

[@AmbuBadger]

I'm imagining you as The Emperor talking to Luke Skywalker on the Death Star: _"Well, there you have it. A fully armed _*_and_*_ operational battle station."_

[@SciTyeTech]

lol!!

[@jimmacdiarmid8230]

Nice work. Looks like a nice electronics project. Your illuminator looks more like a UV Full Spectrum than Infrared. Photos and video captured under Infrared lighting usually appears black and white. Also your illuminator might do better with more of the smaller LEDs. If I may ask, why did you choose to make your own illuminator instead of purchasing one that was already made. I have seen quite a few that have a few LEDs and ones that have up to 200+ LEDs which can be used as a flood light.

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! I did make a mistake in saying that it is an infrared camera. It really is a full spectrum camera. When I film with this camera, I noticed the difference when I use and not use the IR filter. When I use the IR filter, it does make things look more black and white. With this video I filmed in raw format. I could have edited it to look more black and white, but I preferred the original look. Yes, I could have bought the infrared leds. But I already have lot of these large IR leds laying around. I might buy an infrared illuminator, but I prefer to make on instead. When I make stuff like that, it feels more meaningful.

[@jafinch78]

Any reason you decided to not make a ring light maybe with the bare perf board or maybe even in a reflector from those older flashlights from the Goodwill Store to get more collimation or something else? Maybe there's a sensor there better to not block. Cool build and neat to see being resourceful and re-using and re-purposing electronics. I've been doing the same though not building enough yet. I'm moving up from the RTL-SDR DAB TV tuners as well as antennas and working on newer antennas and a tinySA to do some design iterations and figured I'd move forward with a UV-Vis at least NIR spectrometer maybe like the NanoDrop... though more likely the PVC style with some aluminum tubing I have to save space since I wanted to test the spring water residue. Still wondering about the Hero4 since I'd like to use a 4K camera for the spectrometer and probably is best to read into which sensor performs best into the UV and more-so IR range. Thanks for sharing!

[@shubhamshukla167]

nice quite innovative

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! It came out ok, but I think I can still improve it. Thanks for watching!

[@Government_Username]

Nice!!!

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! I am glad you liked it!

[@joshuamann2171]

Will this work with a GoPro 4 Silver? I am finding contradicting information. are the lenses interchangeable between the 3 and 4?

[@SciTyeTech]

Most likely yes and yes, they are interchangeable.

[@jamesk6270]

How can you make the range longer? I removed the IR filter from the gopro lense and i can only see 1ft-3ft in nightvision mode. Im using a IR zoomable flashlight.

[@SciTyeTech]

That's a cool flashlight! For the gopro, there are limits the camera can do. The only thing you can do is change the lens type on the gopro.

[@jamesk6270]

@@SciTyeTech Any recommendation on the lens type?

[@SciTyeTech]

@@jamesk6270 I would say this one would be good. www.ebay.com/i/352753679291?chn=ps&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-117182-37290-0&mkcid=2&itemid=352753679291&targetid=883027960686&device=c&mktype=pla&googleloc=9031560&poi=&campaignid=9423618867&mkgroupid=95066753945&rlsatarget=pla-883027960686&abcId=1141016&merchantid=6296724&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIyYGt2quJ6AIVGNlkCh2GOQU6EAkYBCABEgIxRPD_BwE

[@keanukason5185]

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[@rileyeverett4186]

@Keanu Kason Yea, I have been using instaflixxer for months myself =)

[@jarrenlumpkin5178]

Cool 😎👍😎

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@jarrenlumpkin5178]

Yw ☺👍☺

[@jimc4607]

The filter cobbled on the front looks more like a polarizing filter or a very dark ND filter. "infrared filters" are typically clear.....Oh! wait I see you are adding a VISIBLE light filter. Passing ONLY infrared wavelengths. Cheers mate, keep making cool sh$&!

[@SciTyeTech]

Thanks! Yes, that is exactly what I did. The world looks really amazing in the infrared spectrum.

[@metatron2332]

@@SciTyeTech I think if you add a IR-Pass filter you have to focus the lens new? If you remove the IR filter visible and infrared light reach the sensor but focus was adust to visible light. So it gets a bit more blurry because visible and infrared I guess got different refractions. If you then put on the IR-pass filter only the infrared light at 1000nm will reach the sensor and that looks more blurry because focos must be set new to the ir refraction.

[@atringpower]

wow i will make it

[@SciTyeTech]

You should! It is really cool!

[@januszskype5331]

What? You have to remove IR filter from camera, not add another one!

[@SciTyeTech]

Yes!