Are you happy with it?
Yeah, it's decent. I got the XR version, which means I can focus on PCBs from upclose without needing extra lens.
Edit:
@Aurora
I hope you're right about the resolution.
@Aurora
So in your expert opinion now one should definetly go for the flir one?
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Aurora
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Aurora
That is amazing they just posted the resolution. I was just on there. Are they listening?
I'm not sure about Seek not delivering, I don't see any complains about the current image quality out of the box. There were some gradients forming of about 5 degrees at launch, but that has been fixed for quite a while. And only reported by people here and Seek responded and fixed it
Also let's not forget the range:
What I'm not sure is why people feel inclined to post about Flir in this thread.
We can communicate directly from the Seek firmware to any USB host device, we have not tried yet to send more commands to it, but there are plenty but buried in this giant thread that keeps getting buried even deeper with non Seek Thermal info.
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Aurora
Not the resolution, but the temperature range. That's a higher limitation that number of pixels for me, at -20C to 120C it's closer but still not closer than Seek at -40C to 330C
@miguelvp,
I realise now that you are right.
It is best to leave this thread to those with an interest in the SEEK camera only. Those wishing to find information on the new FLIR product can search the forum for such. Such OT discussion just lowers the signal to noise ratio in this thread. I have deleted the 2nd Gen FLIR One information and comments. As I am no longer an owner of the SEEK product, I will keep my views to myself
I hope you continue to enjoy developing your applications to extract the most out of the SEEK camera unit.
Aurora
... looks like new Flir One will kill it ...
Let them "kill" themself and... get better lower price for USB Seek dongle
Anyway, Flir One can't kill my custom Seek USB software I'd like to use to controll my cheap reflow oven and pick & place machine
BTW: 120*Cmax in Flir One that is a shame
Chipworks have released a picture of the SEEK thermal Pixels. Nice image and enlightening too.
Aurora
Can you share your knowledge about what we are seeing here?
I see that each pixel is made of 4 parts, but I have no idea of the purpose of each...
... looks like new Flir One will kill it ...
Let them "kill" themself and... get better lower price for USB Seek dongle
Anyway, Flir One can't kill my custom Seek USB software I'd like to use to controll my cheap reflow oven and pick & place machine
BTW: 120*Cmax in Flir One that is a shame
You build yourself a pick and place machine?
Do you have some pix online some ware of it?
picture of the SEEK thermal Pixels.
It looks like those dead pixels (hexagon "patent" pattern) are not blanked in software, by as expected they did it hardware
Anyway, we can see there another "dead" pixel on the bottom or above, sonde this at the bottom missing any structures, but this above does look as damaged with only thiz zigzag traces, whatever it is?
There shouldn't be two blanked pixels side by side
You build yourself a pick and place machine?
Rather machine which could help build prototypes
Idea is similiar to pick & place, but simplified-provide manually IC needed on blue table and let imag eprocessing software recognize proper ICs and other SMD parts and put in right places on PCBs which will be not bigger than 5cm x 5cm, so I believe in it can be much cheaper than any other more advanced machines.
Speed is not my concern for the moment. I can do in parallel development tasks etc-just I'd like have a tool to pick and place SMD parts without looking and searching for those parts in small store of those ICs
Could you make a few images?
whts the purpose of thise dead pixels?
Manufacturing artifact most likely.
1. Please post about pick&place machine in separate thread...
2. Pixels are "destoyed" in software not in hardware (possibly due to Flir patents).
More Seek images from:
https://twitter.com/BenKrasnow/media
frenky,
That's interesting, I thought it's a limitation of the manufacturing process and they had to leave some of them blank.
What is interesting is that images of pixels are different from two separate sources.
Could it be that SeeKThermal and SeekThemal XR have different sensors?
2. Pixels are "destoyed" in software not in hardware (possibly due to Flir patents).
Maybe, we didn't see all Seek pixels, but two or more dead pixels close each other side by side isn't good news.
More Seek images from: https://twitter.com/BenKrasnow/media
Do not believe in everything posted in internet, since everybody can post now-remember Seek competes with Flir and cyber wars are part of it. How could you verify that those images shows oryginal Seek sensor, especially when they differ? You have no chance, unless you take this chip and do it yourself with friend at university lab
Could you make a few images?
This is ongoing project and I'll create thread in general technical stuff soon.
This will be cheap pick & place & reflow machine for small SMD boards.
I hope I'll be able solder prototype PCBs in automated way at home in nitrogene atmosphere to avoid any oxidation