prototype thermal flashlight webapp for desktop and Android phones

[Jeffrey Warren]

For those of you using Chrome 21 (the latest desktop version), Opera or Opera Mobile for Android, I cobbled together a simple app for doing thermal flashlight painting at:

http://thermographer.publiclaboratory.org (we'll get a better URL soon, i guess)

It runs better (faster, less buggy) on the desktop than on Android phones so far, and is only 640x480 for now, but is basically functional. You can download images but not yet save them online (soon to change).

Hopefully in a few months, other mobile browsers will implement the webcam "MediaStream" API for JavaScript and we'll be able to do this on the default browser on most phones. For now, Opera Mobile is quite nice. 

I'd like to see if this works all right for folks, so if you do happen to make a thermal image, i'd appreciate it if you posted your images either in reply to this message or as a research note tagged "thermal-flashlight"

Best,

Jeff