Make infrared goggles

Make infrared goggles

Kip Kay of Make Magazine will teach you how to turn welding goggles into infrared goggles with the hack he outlines in this how-to video. The entire project only costs $10. To replicate this hack at home and build your own pair of steampunk infrared goggles, follow along with the steps in this video tutorial. Just don't look at the sun!

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Zim 1 year ago
Lol, the beginning of the video. The goggles looked cool and so did the effect
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DyeVad 1 year ago
DO NOT LOOK AT THE SUN OR YOU'LL BURN YOUR CORNEAS IN A SECOND! ~ XTREAAAMMMMMM

MY EYES.. THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!!
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wbeaty 8 months ago
The goggles just cause a lighted environment become dark, but without blocking IR wavelengths. This allows any extremely bright IR light become visible. For info, check out my original project article: amasci.com/amateur/irgoggl.html

Humans can see IR light if it's bright enough. For example, near-IR light at 730 nanometers has to be about 1000x brighter than the visible wavelength which humans best can see (which is visible greenish, 550nM.) At 800nM infrared, the light has to be nearly a million times brighter. An 800nM IR laser shining on a white surface will appear to human eyes as a dull red dot.

As for safety ...the hazard w/these goggles isn't huge, but then again they aren't a toy for kids. If you used them to stare directly at the sun for many minutes, you'd certainly damage your retinas.
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kisnerp 1 year ago
This seems like a neat little project but I find it's claims that it allows view of infra-red light a bit dubious.

As they mention in the video infra-red light is, by it's nature, invisible. The low pass filter they talk about constructing would certainly block out a large portion of the visible spectrum, but I do not see how it would bring infrared light up into the visible portion of the spectrum for your eyes to detect.

I suspect this project just lets through some narrow set of wavelengths in the visible spectrum that your eye isn't normally able to pick out from the broad spectrum it typically receives.

- Peter K.
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RickRoll 1 year ago
Thanks for your scientific expertise, good comment.
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dmarkus 1 year ago
This looks cool, I'm going to try it.
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UsernamesAreReallyReallyGay 1 year ago
Is anyone else still really really tempted to look into the sun?
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Sumofl 5 months ago
You try it and see if you can find your computer to tell us about it.
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Anthrax 10 months ago
wow. really cool thing!
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emcitysite 10 months ago
Can it be used to look during the night with some light on the street?
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J-Marie17 8 months ago
yeh that whole sun issue....not gonna try this....id be WAYYYY too tempted to look at the sun....no self control...this is the same resaon i stay away from heights...the jump is just too enticing to resist... lol
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SeaBlueAngelUni 2 months ago
lol
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Lego677 8 months ago
cool look my avarter is a maple story bandit
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xmangage 7 months ago
Unfortunately kipkay kinda failed us on this one. For one thing he has the hookup on gels cause I had to pay 7 bucks a sheet! But this #$%@ is sooo bogus!! 4 gels thick is just too thick! It blurs everything out! If you are going to do this buy just the blue not the red!!! The first part he showed with the blue works decent. But that last clip is FRICKIN BOGUS!!! You definitely DO NOT see anything like what he showed!! I would be royally pissed off about this one but fortunately I made some killer 3D glasses! Thanks but no thanks kippitykay!!
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LoafDaConvict 6 months ago
Loaf thinks da sun is pretty when looking through these glasses!!
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uglybong 5 months ago
can see through clothes?
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cubecage 5 months ago
what if i cut this into thin strips and took the strips ad glue them forming a pattern of the material vs open area on the surface of the glasses like this IiIiIiIiIiIiI pa tern to let normal light through without risks of sun frying my eyes would it work?
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use 5 months ago
i hope you could see through clothes by using them!!!!!!
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rajkil 5 months ago
LMAO (reply to usernamesarereallyreallygay) i is very tempted to look at the sun and i mean WITHOUT the goggles hahahaha just joking
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slayernguyen 5 months ago
Errrrrr, pretty cool video, the person talking sounds kinda over excited sometimes
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gangadhar 3 months ago
how to copy these videos to my computer
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kriskier 3 months ago
If you have a flashlight with infrared leds would it then be possible to use these goggles as night vision goggles?
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a07carl95 3 months ago
kwl
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joeboxer 2 months ago
cool
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casey321b 2 months ago
will it work the same if you use them with the night vission camera hack?
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PowerHouse 2 months ago
This is phuckin stupid. Don't waste my time claiming these are infared.....Save arts and crafts for another site....
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spacehead yesterday
This works! I used 6 layers of blue and one of red. Use a set of goggles that fits snug on your face so you cannot see daylight sneeking in. I had some coming in around the nose/chain hole so a bit of duct tape was in order. Wear a hoodie and a ball cap to also help cut down any stray light. Wait about 10 minuets for the best effect. Your eyes will need this long to relax from broad daylight to the new dark world you will be seeing. Use the hard plastic googles not the flexable rubbery ones. THe rubber/vinyl is not opaque enough to block the sunlight and will look green which will ruin the effect. Take care not to crumple scratch or get fingerprints on the gels when cutting or inserting. They will blur anyway and you do not want any extra.
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