So even if you’re not looking for shorted components on SMD boards every day, there’s still plenty of applications for the camera in other fields and hobbies. Of course, at the same time, it can still do anything those lower resolution models are capable of. While so many of these cameras are intended for things like finding cold spots in your house, or identifying the hottest components in a car’s engine bay, the P2 Pro is a much better tool for the sort of close-up delicate work the average Hackaday reader is likely to be doing. Indeed, the website boasts the device is able to clearly observe individual 0201 SMD resistors on a board. So what makes the P2 Pro thermal camera different from so many of the others on the market? Put simply, the combination of the sensor’s (relatively) high 256 x 192 resolution and the addition of a magnetically-attached macro lens means the camera is uniquely suited for close inspection of PCBs. But after taking a close look at the specs, accessories, and claims laid out in the marketing material, I thought this one might be worth checking out first-hand. We’ve seen these kind of phone-based thermal cameras before, and it seemed to be more of the same. So I don’t mind telling you that, when InfiRay contacted me about reviewing their P2 Pro thermal camera, the email very nearly went into the trash. I kid of course…I haven’t dared to get on a bike in a decade. But since there’s no obvious way to turn that into useful content for the readers of Hackaday, I’m still stuck pedaling myself around like it’s the 1900s. For whatever reason, multiple companies have been trying desperately to send me electric bikes with five-figure price tags this year. As such, the vast majority of these offers get ignored. The reason is simple: we’re only interested in devices or products that offer something useful or unique to this community.
But if you’ve been with us for awhile, you’ll also know that in-house reviews aren’t something we actually do very often. After all, getting us to post about their product is cheaper, easier, and arguably more effective than trying to come up with their own ad campaign. Note: Primesense the founder of the OpenNi community were bought by Apple in 2013 and the original site closed down in 2014, a “clone” of the site can be found here: .It probably won’t surprise you to learn that Hackaday is constantly hounded by companies that want us to review their latest and greatest gadget.
OpenNi: “ Established in November 2010, the not-for-profit OpenNI consortium was formed to promote and standardize the compatibility and interoperability of Natural Interaction (NI), devices, applications and middleware. is a community dedicated in becoming the number one source of news, codes and information about the latest and most innovative Microsoft Kinect user-made programs.
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