Floppy Disk IR Camera Hack

Step 5 Find the CCD

Carefully detach the lens assembly from the circuit board to find the CCD chip. Set aside these screws somewhere safe as well.

Comments

[ccrh2008]

This is a good idea. I saw a show on Discovery Channel about futuristic technology or something, at one point they were talking about X-ray cameras and how some cameras are already equipped to do this. The process they were talking about involved enabling a camera to see only infrared light, and since infrared light passes through most objects, it works in a way that could be described as X ray vision. So I took the IR light filter off of my camera and was thinking of what I could use for a V light filter. And now I have a V light filter. Muahahaha... Thanks This is an awesome idea.

[Marinus84]

You don't really think IR light passes through things right?

"Another interesting fact about infrared light is that it can travel through thick smoke, dust or fog, and even some materials."

Thats about it, so it's not possible to use it like an X-ray camera :) That would involve radiation ofcourse :)

[baratacus]

I.R. is radiation, All light is radiated, the visible you can detect with your naked eye, the invisible on either end of the spectrum you can't see. I.R. and U.V. I.R. is radiated by heat sources. Your body generates heat and therefor produces I.R. radiation. I.R. can be filtered and reflected like visible light. It has a longer wave length (shorter frequency) than visible light and can penetrate objects that would absorb visible light.. Microwave radiation is even longer wave and can pass through objects that IR can not, Radio waves are even longer wave radiation and can penetrate objects that microwaves can not get through. The longer the wave length, the higher the penetration. If you can filter (convert) that frequency of light to a visible (shorter) wavelength using an optical fliter, then you can see what that frequency of radiation is reflecting off of or being emitted from. We used to play laser tag as a kid in the park at night. A friend of mine had a pair of night vision goggles (chinese military surplus) and he could see heat signatures from the other players, and when we'd fire our guns, he could see the I.R. beams like they were flashlights.
Some airports are using IR boosted imaging scanners to show a thermal differentiation between the body and the clothing worn To filter out more of the visible light, you can stack the filters so that your visual representation of the I.R. spectrum is more pure.

[Vengence]

The modern and widespread use of the word radiation refers specifically to ionizing radiation, which does not include IR.

[mikiex]

Just because a word as been adopted in this way to refer to a specific "Bad" radiation doesnt mean it cannot be used to describe the process that is radiation of which there is no better word to describe it and is the correct current scientific term! :)

[Vengence]

Wrong. That would be like using the word gay to mean happy. It just isn't done that way anymore. What a word has been adopted to mean is completely relevant.
There's no better way to describe it? The better way to describe it is to be specific as to non-ionizing radiation...

[mikiex]

This is not true at all, if someone says Infrared radiation it implies you are talking about non-iornizing radiation. You don't need to say it is non-iornizing because it is a known fact that it fits into this band of radiation.

You are saying the word radiation cannot be used with non-iionizing types of radiation because the layman term radiation now only means ionizing radiation.
Where as the scientific meaning has been unaltered.

I better go and turn my non-ionizing radiators down as it's hot in here....

[Vengence]

You ARE specifying non-ionizing by saying infrared. You didn't just use the word "radiation" standalone. You're not disproving the point...

[62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer]

The scanners they use at airports to see through your clothes use some sort of light in the IR spectrum, but it's not going to see through you of course :-)

[keithisit]

Airport scanners use light from the far end of the IR band, they are very good at seeing through clothing, plastic and paper but cannot penetrate body mass because water is very strongly absorbing at this wavelength.

[Vengence]

Are you guys talking about the backscatter scanners? No, those use actual x-ray radiation at "low" output(still unhealthy), not IR light...

[keithisit]

Nope, what I'm talking about are scanners working in the far-IR (if your an engineer) or THz (for you physicists) region.
They are used quite widely throughout the packaging industry as well due to the high transparency, at THz freqs, of most packaging materials and the very low energy of the beams.