Posted in Misc Hacks, Video Hacks Tagged CCD, goggles, ir, monocular, night vision, pass filter, TFT LCD Post navigationД«uilding a cheap active digital nightvision device isnt hard. But if walking around at night with a monocular at your face isnвЂ™t appealing, you can always try biohacking yourself to achieve night vision. Overall, though, we like the way this project came out, and we also like the way bucked the Fusion 360 trend and used SketchUp to design the case. We wonder if somehow eliminating the red and blue channels from the camera might not have been slightly more elegant. One quibble: the faux mil-surp look is achieved with a green filter over the TFT LCD panel. That comes in handy to eliminate parallax errors while using the monocular for nighttimeВ walks with both eyes open. The main body of the case is nicely contoured, the eyepiece has a comfortable eyecup printed in NinjaFlex, and the camera is mounted on a ball-and-socket gimbal to allow fine off-axis angle adjustments. seemed to put most of his effort into designing a great case for the monocular, at the price of 25 hours of 3D printer time.

Where this project stands out is not so much the electronics - itвЂ™s really just a simple CCD camera module with the IR pass filter removed, an LCD screen to display the image, and a big fat IR LED to throw some light around.

Now thereвЂ™s an open-source night vision monocular that you can build to keep tabs on the nighttime goings-on in your yard. If youвЂ™ve always wanted to see in the dark but havenвЂ™t been able to score those perfect Soviet-era military surplus night vision goggles, you may be in luck.

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