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Thermal Imaging Drone Part 4 – First Flight

Spoilered by the title, a lot of progress has been made. I managed to fix the magic smoke problem. The cause was the cheap unbranded Aliexpress step down converter (who could have guessed?). I am not an electrical engineer, so I can not explain what happened exactly, but it fried the zener diode of the [ ]

Back to the good old times – Win 7 for Debian

ChatGPT? Copilot+ and Recall? AI-Bubble bursting and incoming recession? Dude wake up, it s 2010, now join the skype call and let s play some Minecraft. Sadly, it was not a dream and while we can still play Minecraft (probably using Discord to talk nowadays), the future looks bleak as ever. Personal computing especially takes some hits [ ]

Thermal Imaging Drone Part 3 – Progress & Failures

Okay, the next steps part in the last post was quite optimistic But I did something! Receiving the video feeds on my laptop So I connected my laptop via ethernet to the ground pi to receive a video stream. Since I later plan to do some crazy computer vision stuff I would like to do [ ]

Thermal Imaging Drone Part 2 – New build

As outlined in the first post the next step would be to build a basic drone. So I went on an online shopping spree and spend a lots of money like a good consumer. Have a look! On the picture you can see the following: This list is non exhaustive, you will also need some [ ]

Thermal Imaging Drone Part 1 -The beginning

So I saw a video on YouTube from Les Lab about a thermal camera for your android smartphone which apparently could also be used on a Raspberry Pi. Intrigued by this my immediate thoughts were: lets strap a Raspberry Pi with this camera on my drone and get some aerial infrared footage.Disclaimer: Do not fly [ ]