DIY Nightvision Goggles
Posted: Thu Jul 13, 2017 4:18 pm
Hello All,
First post onto the forum and thought I would try to be helpful and show a little project I built myself last year.
The pictures show the nightvision goggles. I did not come up with the idea myself and simply followed the idea which I saw in a tutorial.
The concept is fairly simple and cheap. I obtained a cheap pair of FPV goggles which are usually used for drone flying and then I connected a Raspberry Pi computer to the goggles which then boots the operating system onto the screen in the goggles. I then connect a Pi Noir camera to the Pi and this also incorporates two IR LEDS which project light in front for the IR camera to detect. After a little of programming the Pi, when started boots up and opens the live camera display onto the screen of the goggles...put these on your head and voila you can see in the dark!
Advantages of this system:
-Cheap (Roughly £60 depending if you already have battery packs available)
-Real time IR vision with no lag
-IR lights give out no visible light
Disadvantages:
-Limited Range (just over 5m)
-Spatial awareness is off as the goggles protrude some distance from your face (takes time to get used to!)
-Have to have 2 battery packs connected and stuck in your back pockets
Hope people enjoy this! If people are interested I could get round to making a tutorial for it as well
First post onto the forum and thought I would try to be helpful and show a little project I built myself last year.
The pictures show the nightvision goggles. I did not come up with the idea myself and simply followed the idea which I saw in a tutorial.
The concept is fairly simple and cheap. I obtained a cheap pair of FPV goggles which are usually used for drone flying and then I connected a Raspberry Pi computer to the goggles which then boots the operating system onto the screen in the goggles. I then connect a Pi Noir camera to the Pi and this also incorporates two IR LEDS which project light in front for the IR camera to detect. After a little of programming the Pi, when started boots up and opens the live camera display onto the screen of the goggles...put these on your head and voila you can see in the dark!
Advantages of this system:
-Cheap (Roughly £60 depending if you already have battery packs available)
-Real time IR vision with no lag
-IR lights give out no visible light
Disadvantages:
-Limited Range (just over 5m)
-Spatial awareness is off as the goggles protrude some distance from your face (takes time to get used to!)
-Have to have 2 battery packs connected and stuck in your back pockets
Hope people enjoy this! If people are interested I could get round to making a tutorial for it as well