This project won the prize for the best "Fresh Make" of the May 2016 Flir "Hack the Heat" hackathon at Impact Hub in San Francisco.
Our team name was "Byte-B-Q" and over two days we created a grillmaster's wearable device to supplement the commonly-used hand check with Flir data.
The project fused distance data from an ultrasonic rangefinder with infrared sensor data from a Flir Lepton sensor to determine the surface area of a heat-radiating object.
The wearable device would indicate whether the heat source was good for grilling, too small, or too cold with a simple LED interface.
See a demo video at the links below:
Technical Details:
- Platform: Raspberry Pi 2
- Sensors: Flir Lepton infrared sensor, generic ultrasonic rangefinder
- Language: C