Thermal Camera Works

I recently started building a thermal camera into a used Polaroid Land Camera. Using a Raspberry Pi I am able to make low resolution videos and images. I am entertaining the notion of doing higher res stuff with a camera designed by someone else, but I will continue to develop this lo-res raspberry pi driven camera.

Update 11-1-22: The Polaroid Land Camera is provisionally functional and has ditched the raspberry Pi in favor of the Teensy 4.1. The plans I used to design mine are here: https://www.diy-thermocam.net/. Find pictures of the camera itself here, when I get it fully functional. Should be very soon.

I have started doing some portraiture at slightly higher resolution, using the newly successfully built Polaroid Thermal Camera. I’ll be putting some portraits as I take them below. In the meantime I will continue to experiment with palettes and upscaling, with the eventual goal of maybe making prints.

front view Polaroid thermal camera
Big Swinger 3000 Polaroid Thermal Camera with Flir Lepton 3.5 sensor
Big Swinger 3000 Polaroid Thermal Camera running DIY Thermocam firmware
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait
thermal portrait

Below are some of my lo-res video works, that I will be continuing with soon.