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I have a tangentially related question: I’ve been toying with the idea of building some hacky night-vision goggles by popping the IR filter off of a CMOS (or s

• anfractuosity 5y ago
  You could look at the pi noir cameras, which already have no IR filter, I use one for a wildlife camera and IR lamp.
  • omginternets 5y ago
    Ah, good to know. These seem to be intended for use with the Raspberry Pi, but I imagine they can be used with microcontrollers like Arduino, with a bit of soldering-iron hackery, right?
• jeffreygoesto 5y ago
  ST Micro has some with significant near IR sensitivity, quick googling brought up [0]. For real "night vision" you need an imager without color array, it filters out too much light, and a HDR one like [1]. Then you need to map from the HDR to 8bit with some tonemapping. What you can expect max is something like [2]. [0] https://www.systemplus.fr/reverse-costing-reports/stmicroelectronics-near-infrared-camera-sensor-in-the-apple-iphone-x https://www.systemplus.fr/reverse-costing-reports/stmicroele... [1] https://www.st.com/resource/en/data_brief/vd5640.pdf https://www.st.com/resource/en/data_brief/vd5640.pdf [2] https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s119/turntwomotorsports/100_0146.jpg https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s119/turntwomotorsports/...
  • omginternets 5y ago
    This is great, thank you! TBH, the picture you linked to is much better than what I expected. Do you know if this was done with IR illumination? EDIT: p.s. where would you go to buy [1] ? I checked alibaba for the "VG5640" device code and came up empty.