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Offline AntiThetaTopic starter

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thermal sensors
« on: March 29, 2006, 02:17:18 PM »
does anyone know of a good thermal sensor for detecting an object that is warmer than any of the objects around it by about 15o C from about 5 ft away?
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Re: thermal sensors
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2006, 04:38:19 PM »
What about these?

Thermal Imaging (Infrared Spectrum Only) Camera

There are also these no contact thermometers . . .
http://www.testequipmentdepot.com/extech/thermometers/ir.htm
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Re: thermal sensors
« Reply #2 on: March 31, 2006, 09:02:32 AM »
I was looking for something that could be atached to the Atom Bot board without to much modification. curently the only robot club in my area is the one that I am a part of and we just started last year. So we don't have that much experiance with robots.
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Re: thermal sensors
« Reply #3 on: March 31, 2006, 09:43:12 AM »
You can hack into to no contact thermometer, and hook up the output to your atom board.

Just open it up, and use a multimeter to find useable signal that represents the temperature.

What you are asking for isnt easy.

You can probably use a flame detector such as that used in the firebot competitions . . . but I dont think the accuracy is very good.

Why do you need this? You doing USAR perhaps and looking for bodies?
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Re: thermal sensors
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2006, 07:17:54 AM »
competition hosted by our section of IEEE.
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