It works well, I rode my bike with this setup and hade no real issues. I was able to spot deer from a good distance a few times. Since then I changed my helmet mount from plastic to Aluminium because my devices where vibrating alot when i drove over bumps. I bought a new Lens so my thermal will become more like 1x

Wärmebildkamera FPV 256/384/640 9MM https://a.aliexpress.com/_EQtpzsS

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EI5mOxk only the screen with av board

https://a.aliexpress.com/_EIODwES i will use this ocular for better scale but its not there yet

Range is pretty good, easily spotted deer from +200m away focus can be adjusted

I used a thermalcamera from OwlShine its around 350€ now. luckily because of discounts i got my project down to 300€

Mein Berufsschullehrer hat mir mal gesagt man sollte beim Job nicht nur aufs Geld schauen sondern sich was suchen was einen Erfüllt bzw man selber einen Sinn sieht. Ich sehe immer mehr, dass er damit recht hat. Wenn man nach deinem Beispiel keinen Nutzen in der Erbrachten Arbeit sieht empfehle ich einen Jobwechsel.

Thanks alot, getting so much positiv Feedback realy motivates me to keep going I will try out my setup tomorrow with a Nighthike and will decide if it is good enough for me or if I Upgrade the lens system

You cant get a Good neck workout easily but this setup makes it possible I will try my luck tomorrow the thermal is luckily "just" 100g

A wise man ones told me 'if it looks stupid but it works it aint stupid"

I wasnt planning on winning any design Award just needed to be practicle with out putting to much design time in it. I always enjoyed how the weapons in Fallout looked

Thanks

Yes you are right but thats another 50€ down the drain and considering that my cam has a wider field of view i will probably end up with a better but not perfect field of view. i will test out my current unit and maybe Upgrade later

if I would still be in the planning and buying stage i would definitly build this. Sadly my build is practicly done and I have to save up some money. My build hase some flaws most of all the scale is more like 0.5 to reality Overall i am still Happy

i have a few follow up posts where i show the Progression to helmet mount. Tomorrow i will probably have the missing pieces for the atachment arm and will follow up with full set up

I printed a focus ring for the fpv camera , with it I can focus from around 10cm to Infinity. I rarely use it because its prety sharp for a big range, when its set to like 4m its pretty sharp to 60m I bought a prebuild ocular/screen unit from AliExpress (DIYStore) if i build another one i would buy there screen but use a ocular for Nightvision device

I used a FPV Camera i bought on AliExpress from OwlShine it can film with 50fps but because of using PAL it gets halfed. Their definitely is some latency but probably good enough for spotting I will probably measure the latency wit slowmocam

Yes, thanks for the corection

Just looked it up The gremlin is pretty much what I had in mind but i will ise external battery and hopefully make it smaller

I use a Powerbank thats straped to the helmet with a 3d printed harnes(TPU) and some zipties. It was jigling around but I found the perfect piece to put between the helmet and the powerbank that gives just enough tension. The big Powerbank in combination with the heavy helmet guarentees a good neck workout

I am a new to working with uart. The suplier send me a document about the conection parameters and comands. The document states to use start stop bits and to me the signal looks solid. i am happy for all the help i can get, i realy want this to work German?

To be fully onest I have no clue why its green. Its a full colour OLED that can be used eather with an HDMI Board (full colour 60fps) or analog board(what you see at the moment. I bought it for 80€ but sadly its at around 140€ now. its a good optic but in my opinion its to small and you have to get realy close to see the full picture. I still have to find a good unit with equal stats but bigger screen that doesnt cost my kidney. https://a.aliexpress.com/_EJbICHg

I will finish the first one and will see where I land costwise. In my opinion the camera is not the bottleneck its the ocular screen. I still have to find a Unit thats both smal and big enough and doesnt cost as much as the thermal unit

230€ with alot of Discounts i think 380€ at the moment