How to make your own Night Vision Device!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 พ.ค. 2020
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In this project I will show you how to create a night vision device. It mainly consists of a security camera, a small screen and a custom PCB which features IR LEDs and an LED driver. After powering the device with a USB Type-C PD powerbank, you can basically use it to see in the dark. Let's get started!
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3:43 what my fridge sees in 3am
😂😂😂
Oh god🤣
3:44 is better
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Relatable :D
GreatScott's neighbour: "How to make your own flashbang"
How to make your own granade
Nothing for that kid that built a functional nuclear reactor in his parents garage.
That's a job for ElectroBoom 😂😂
@@Shadow__133 well technically it was in his parents shed.
Logan Indistinguishable. Im from a poor country where you are either on the 1% and have a garage WITH a car, or you are poor and have tools in it instead 😂.
I love your content but what I like the most is your honesty. Every time you make a mistake you don’t hide it and edit it out, you just recognize it even if it is, as you said, a beginner mistake. Being so humble makes your viewers see that even the most knowledgeable people can make mistakes. Thank you Scott!!!
No problem😉
Nice idea, your "portable night vision device"!
That reminds me of my time in the army. There was a laser targeting device. Packed in a box overall as big and heavy as a 40" tube TV. But the box had two straps to carry it as a backpack, so it was called "portable"😂.
army: makes heavier than 10kg and calls it 'portable'
scott: makes 30cm thick goggle-ish brick and calls it 'portable'
Portable to the military is anything that can be carried by a full platoon, either in one piece, or as parts. There are a lot of things that fit that description, up to pretty large anti aircraft guns.
@@SeanBZA yeah i know.
anything can move are called portable in millitary.
but it kinda makes soilder who carrying that to upset.
Oh so persons from Army are also watching this, excellent, by the what was your job?
I know exactly what you mean. My unit has some surveillance equipment that's considered "portable" until you realize you're rucking 40+ miles with 75 pounds on your back. Embrace the suck!
0:16
"portable night vision device"
straps xbox to face
great video though
Lmao
I tried to make something like this 10 years ago, but way more sloppily. I was much too ambitious, but learned a lot of useful things about soldering, just like I'm learning here with all this straight forward direction and explanation. This has never been made so clear to me. Excellent work as always.
Great scoot : Lets get started!
Me who barely can do through hole soldering: Yeey!
Even worse, SMD...
look at his soldering jobs. No offense, but what he builds here is "proof of concept" quality, not production quality.
SMD Soldering is "bytheway" easier then trough hole soldering, when you have the right tools and steady hands.
(If you do not have steady hands or technique, neither will you be succesfull with THT)
@@sarowie Meh, to be fair you need steadier hands for SMD component placement than for any THT job (and if by "right tool" you mean a pick'n'place machine, GTFO lol). But I agree that Scott's soldering job isn't generally great, on this video alone we can see he didn't heat the ICs enough to solder the back tab (which was a good thing in the end given he had to desolder them), and some of his THT joints are cold and matte, but as you said it's POC quality, I'm sure he'd do it better if it was for a customer - if only because he wouldn't have the camera in the way (yeah, don't forget that, it's probably a big hinderance).
Hey! You didn't have to position the screen so far away from your face to obtain a clear image and make the headset so much bigger. If you use a convex lens positioned close to the screen it would make the screen appear farther away (similar to the lenses in a VR headset. Love the content ❤️
I just love how neatly he draws 👏
Mee too
I made similar device by removing the IR filter from my phones camera an add IR LEDs to the flash light circuit
Diodegonewild also made such a thing.
Same i made it from my old nokia phone lol
That's brilliant! How did you remove the IR filter from your phone camera? Are there tutorials on TH-cam to do that?
This just came to my mind too. Even in combination witg some auxilary IR LEDs, and a cheap VR phonebox.
@@Felipe2077tv The filter can be a plastic frame with a purple piece of plexi and it can be removed simply by popping it off. I've also seen thin purple sheets glued to the lense. They can be removed by scratching it off with a knife (this might damage your camera so I wouldn't suggest it).
THIS is the top of TH-cam engineering. Simple, yet functional. You're the man. Since 2015 you just amaze me. Keep it going. :)
Perfect timing, oneplus just disabled their visible filtering mode...
lol
they just say it is a colour filter
Just search for an external app for that, a software update wont degrade the camera performances.
They only did that in China though?
Pretty much any camera without IR filter can do that
@@w04h how? I thought that glass was opaque to ir
so freaking great to see a video from great scott! the same moment i enter in youtube site
So this is the project with pcb and a hole on it. It really confuse me since you posted it a while ago.
Yup
Takes a while from production to editing to upload
He publishes the videos a week early for his patrons at Patreons.
Reminds me of the old kipkay infrared camcorder scope, very cool
Omg, he looked so happy at 3:10 when he pointed the IR camera at himself
3:28 security camera does have IR filter which it switches on the lighting conditions. At night it removes the filter and turn on the ir LED's to get night vision capabilities.
How do you mean removes it when it is just glass(filter) in front of lens right?
@@Luka-xx5ve by using solenoid based slider system. Which slides the filter in front of camera in day time and remove it in night.
@@hemantbabel4279 I think in day time IR filtered by software, something like automatic color-correction. Mechanical part it's more expensive and less reliably. But maybe you right, I don't know for sure.
It looks like the binoculars from the original star wars!!! Great work man!!
I made one before I saw your video by myself but yours is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY higher quality and better, LOVE your channel!
After 5 years of watching your videos it was the first time seeing you .💯
There is also more expensive alternative, buy a cat (cat has got a night vision) and when youre in front of the wall, the cat starts meowing :D
Nope, the cat just watches and laughs to itself when you smash your face into the edge of a door.
@@JETJOOBOY xD
@@JETJOOBOY then it gonna bite his hand and scratch it and jump to run away xD
That was really funny
but living with cat is way harder than just buying night vision cam XD
I nominate you for the coolest accent on TH-cam! LOL!!
Thank you for doing this project because it gives me a great starting point for my camera system on an underwater rov.
That project is crazy!
The boys be like: Bravo 6, going dark.
Call of Duty modern warfare
Aye Captain Price
It's refreshing to know that even experts make simple mistakes. I enjoyed this video. Thank you!
You can't become an expert without making mistakes ;-)
Du bist einer der ganz wenigen, die solche Ideen auch umsetzen und die Realisierung auch dokumentieren. Dein Talent ist bewundernswert frisch und konsequent umgesetzt, ein Glück, dass Teile und Material zur Verfügung stehen, sonst dürfte man alles löten und noch mehr frickeln, so erscheint es durchaus vorstellbar, dass ebenso auch nach zu bauen. Beide Daumen hoch :)
I am so relieved to see that you got a new sponsor
I just planning to make this project with my fpv goggles then you made this. Wow!
I've been thinking of using one of my FPV headsets, should be more compact than this, could also use ready-made ir panels of Cctv cameras.
@@welshdave5263 i have fattshark attitude v3 and when im goes to highschool, i experimented this with scrap security camera. It works very well but you know fpv goggles are not cheap then this car monitors.
ive made this years ago with an old fatshark and a security cam. no need to build a complicated pcb since the security cam comes with Infrared LEDs already. It was a lot more compact than scotts design
"How to make a IR flash light"
It is very simple just replace smd infrared led in your smartphone instead of ordinary led flash light.
how to make a IR Fleshlight
@@raiderguard5777 With preheating function
@@raiderguard5777 and xray to see thrue clothes
Using this method
th-cam.com/video/vsvElqcu_E8/w-d-xo.html
Yeah! I could be after 11min after he uploaded a video! Great Scott!
Your last two lines are amazing.
Great videos espacialy in quarantine keep the good work
Thanks, will do!
great scott: makes expensive homemade device
people: use headlight
btw, love your vids great scott
Bravo, what a complete projekt ! :)
This is awesome!!
I have some experience with analog cameras used on fpv drones. There are cameras like the Runcam Owl which have very small minimum light requirements (as small as 0.001lux iirc) and are also very small, which would be a perfect fit for such a project. They also don't feature IR filters, so if anyone wants to replicate this project, try using that camera
Look, I know this is 2 years too late to ask this question, but would you mind further explaining how to adapt this tutorial to that specific camera
@@spencermurrelle8773 From my understanding, the fpv drone analog cameras use composite, so you just need to connect composite of the camera to the composite of the screen, just like it was shown in the tutorial.
9:05 I Miss The Word.. " Genius,I Know.."...
You mean that viewer knows that PCB is received before working on it?🤔🤔🤔
Amazing project!
this is really cool man keep it up i really love your videos
It looks like the auto exposure of the camera undoes the helpfulness of increasing the power of the IR LEDs.
Increasing the IR LED output also gives more range. There could probably do with some kind of saturation knob too so you can decide how much to adjust by.
Just in time
I obliterated my toe couple of minutes ago
same bro
Lol xD
I feel the pain just by reading aaahhhhh
Nice video Scott
sir i am following you from a long time and i really like what you do . you are my real inspiration
I would highly suggest using FPV Goggles like eachine ev100 and an FPV camera without IR filter for a much more compact build. We usually use those in racing drones. I've been wanting to do a project like that using the exact same concept with those components i mentioned but I don't have enough cash to do it. 🙂
Looks like a box FPV goggles! Like my EV800D! 😃
Great job, dude!!! Stay safe there! 🖖😊
Just glue some ir LEDs to a pair of fat shark goggles and connect a fpv cam to the av input
@@TheOrginalHumibold Very true! Like a Foxeer Cat camera. 😃
@@TheOrginalHumibold basicly that yeah
Nice work. I used to build these when vacuum tubes were needed to do this in the 80's... good times...
Good job, very creative.
AMAZING iv been wanting to make one of these for agesss
Yeah finally I can preform DIY night raids
"This _portable_ device" I think it's a bit of a stretch to call it "portable"... wouldn't it be easier and more compact to use a VR headset for this?
Only if he used two screens- the focal point for the single one was the limitation.
It's possible he could have used that VR headset and it's internal screens but then you run into the problem of cost of the VR.
@@girthquake1413 you could buy a broken one
How would you connect the camera to the VR headset though? They don't just have RCA jacks on them...
@KeeganDitty Indeed, but good luck plugging analogue RCA signal into HDMI or DisplayPort.
@KeeganDitty Ok but for real though, how do you actually expect it to work? You get a VR headset (not cheap), an RCA-HDMI converter, and... then what? You can't see the screen because the lenses distort everything. Remove the lenses? Now you can't focus on the screen because it's too close. I really don't know how you expect this to work.
Very interesting video, man!
Very good project 👍 I like it
So, you're making a night visor huh? So how-
E X T R A T H I C C
What an amazing project!
Shut Up you didnt even see it
@@joziksk4323 Look at the date of his comment ;-)
He did 5 days ago
@@joziksk4323 he saw it 5 days ago because of being a Patron (early access kid)
@@c1nema1 but he is blind
Cooles Projekt
I love to watch your video, no matter what, because I get to learn something new..😊❤
"Make your own Night Vision Device"
me: "laughs in military night vision"
With decent starlight camera it maybe could be comparable to gen1 analog military stuff
When you were changing the video mode i thought about the Predator visor.
That really is accurate though; they did a decent job in the movie, you can make out him flipping through various EM spectrums. Looked like thermal, laser ranging, penetrate radar/x-ray, etc. If they ever get a system working to mask you from visual light, you would need an array of non-visible range sensors, as being invisible means you couldn't see, either.
Very nice project!
Great video as usual from great Scott
Thanks for watching
0:27 Custom " PCB ya" haha
just for fun Cool project Btw
11:16 bravo 6 going dark
Awesome project! and Eid Mubarak!!
That was awesome 😲
"Portable"
Placing two cameras side by side and displaying the two videos in the screen with the VR box may give a 3d view.
I did like this project. Reasonable price easy to build how could you not. Great video!
Excellent project indeed
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Hold my beer. I can do everything
Nice project!
I get why you did it this way, being an electronics channel, makes sense!
My way was to remove ir filter from an old smartphone, attach it permanently in a cheap smartphone vr headset and mount an ir lamp. Turned out quite sleek if I do say so myself :)
Appreciate ur work
“Bravo six, going dark.”
Can you make a project using Hydrogen Fuel Cell.
ah yes, the negotiator
Yeah, I enjoyed this video as you hope 😊
I'm glad!
It is great Scott 😊
Haters be like: JUST TURN ON THE LIGHTSS
That's a pretty huge mistake. Quarantine life has hit you hard😰
It would be huge if I did not notice it in time and destroyed the LEDs.
@@greatscottlab Oh i thought since you soldered them you might have tested them and blown up a few 😂😂😂
@@renevile I've ran out of solder tin ... Quarantine life hits everyone hard.
Great work!
Please do more videos like this love your videos
awesome project
Thank you very much, also great thanks for sharing that driver's mistake great teaching moment👍
That's a great scott type thing!!!!!!
how curious! i was thinking about such a device just yesterday
Nice work
hey man great video. looks like you got the idea from the oneplus 8 ir camera . Love your projects.
i made one too works pretty well thanks
Nice house looks comfy
Thank you for sharing Sir supporter from Philippines
Great project 👌.
I made this in four hours after seeing this videos, great inspiration to reuse stuff that I was going to throw away.
Really nice video thanks mate :)
My pleasure!
This is great!
It's one of my favourite videos
I wanted to do exactly this project in 1999 and was not able to... Thank you for this nice video! :)
That's pretty cool
Great project
Nice idea
Built several of these, one was a phone Ota to battery and webcam via Google cardboard. Another was rasberry pi and orange pi with rasbian on rasberry and motion eye on the orange pi. Laptop in backpack also works as would some mini pc's.
Would LOVE to see you build up a DIY Beamer projector from an old monitor, a high-watt COB LED, and some Fresnel lenses. There are a few references online for them, but none in in such a visually followable way like you always make!