Seth Ruffins, Ph.D. of CalTech will be presenting the Quail Atlas, a research project that he and his team have created to allow biologists to better understand the embryonic development process. When tasked with documenting the presentation as a group [group members: Hae Jin, Manny, Sarah, Jae, Yuin, myself], I was interested in figuring out a way to capture the presentation using a method that in some way reflected what I was able to learn about the Quail Atlas research project in the days leading up to the presentation. The image data that is used in the project is MRI data which means that with this data, Ruffins as well as the users of the Atlases created are able to look at objects and see things that can’t be seen without an aid. With this as the inspiration, I was able to hack apart a normal webcam and modify it to only see infrared light which can’t be seen with the naked eye.
Cracking the case open
“If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.” – Make’s Owner’s Manifesto by Mister Jalopy
Removing the IR removal filter