Hi, it's pattern time. This is the brand spanking new just released flurry. PS 320 thermal-imaging camera 320 by 240 screen resolution screen screen I've done a review on this so if you want to have a look at that, it'll be up in the card somewhere up there. but we don't want to do that today.

We want to tear it apart. Let's go I See some screws on the top? Ah, we got four screws and there are a whole bunch of little plastic retainer. Clips and I Probably nothing up. Yeah, we're almost in like Flynn except for the bloody LCD ribbon cable.

Ah, bugger. Okay, what's cool I'll get back to you, we're almost in like Flynn but um I do not like this at all. This ribbon cable had no reach to go I don't know how I'm going to get that back in I honestly don't know. that is really bizarre.

like as it like I might have to know Oh actually does that I had that that unclips Okay I think that front panel might unclips and there I was going to say I might have to get the heat gun out and you know that might be the final step or something like that. So yeah, but with the plastic there, you can't do it. There's there 18 650 internal rechargeable battery. This is interesting.

We've got micro USB we were going over to that's a add some dye. Is that a die cast? Emily or a magnesium alloy shell on there? either? That's probably. It's probably die cast Is it for though to be for thermal? That'll be for thermal? thermal mass reasons. And they've got these are copper straps all over the place.

We can see the copper backing on the LCD as well, another copper shielding sort of plate going over there, making contact. That that's making contact to the front there. So they're really serious about the RFI in this thing. They go into town all right.

This was really tricky, but it did come out as one module. or if I beat on there like that. Whoo gone to town. Anyway, it did come out as one module.

There's our USB which comes from here over to here. Well, they couldn't even design like its interface. Look at the copper shielding over that as well. It's all a bit.

It's not really how you're doing, but it's it's getting there. Anyway, we have the module all comes out in a little plastic yellow plastic retaining hook and of course it's all in one big die cast alloy thing. As I said, for our thermal mass reasons, you expect that. But yes, certainly over-engineered and that is our main board.

We can see we've got our battery back up. There is gotta have, presumably it's got a real time clock bootloader 16.5 for those playing log at home when Bond. All right. So we've got some SD Ran There will go wrong some more memory over here, so that means the processor is tucked away inside.

And for those hacking I don't know. There's lots of test points here. One of those could be say debug serial interface of course so big year I don't know I'm not going to probe around I'm not too interested in hacking this thing as long as it gives me the focal length I want because like there's no extra model to hack up so there's no real incentive to go in there and hack it unless maybe you wanted a higher frame rate or you wanted to repurpose it for something else. So yeah, I'm not going to bother in that respect.

Tell you what, this is one complicated arse assembly. but I am quite impressed by whoever did all the 3d envelope design and all the systems integration on this. but Chucky I Just want to mention this: We're going to slot around the PCB like that there's something there I Reckon that could be some isolation for a temperature sensor perhaps? Hmm. and as I've sent it down in there on its own, little bored with it.

So enough thermal so that they know to be thermally coupled through to the aluminium case there. so that's our border board interconnect which then goes directly onto there into the FPGA and does all the whiz being processing. So let's see if we can get that module out and have a look. It's just got to be.

It's not going to be a new sensor in here, it's just one of their leptons or whatever. Their latest generation: 320 by 240 centuries there is the back of that. it's upside down so all the electrons are going to fall out and that and I want to take this apart further. but there is going to be the shutter down in there.

They're written like wire going down in there. That would be the calibration shutter which comes across and closes that and you can see the little germanium probably germanium lens in there I Said it before I Really do like how all this goes together. This has got this self tapping points is plastic holder that sort of holds of that in there, but that's it's goes together rather brilliantly, if a bit. You know the first time you try and take it apart seems a bit convoluted, but it's definitely method to the madness in this.

And if you're wondering, yep, that temperature sensor there goes down in that little hole down in there. so it's measuring the Shazi temperature so that makes sense. So let's have a look at this under the Tigana microscope. There's not too much interesting on that side, but here's the money shot.

Here's what everyone wants to see. so let's go in there. And there we go. We've got a free scalar thingamabob arm thingy and here's your Cyclone Four FPGA that would be a JTAG E-type stuff.

And oh, this load on off so that's your right? Is that your load for your FPGA perhaps? how to be how to Be My guess. Anyway, that cool-looking Jazzy down in the corner there Oh Dialog semi okay, that's the end. You can tell by all the inductors and all the caps that's a multi-core voltage chip and we've got that doesn't connect to anything so like inside the camera. So that's obviously a some sort of programming slash debug interface.

and like I suggested that is isolated up there that's isolated for thermal and vibration reason. so it's either a voltage reference or a temperature sensor. Take your pick. I don't know what's a T 7:30 on a 6-pin SOT 23 package David's over there busily trying to get that up on his phone.

Now the header there, which doesn't seem to be doing much so there you go. That's about all she wrote on that board for those playing along at home, But as I said, you probably don't want to hack this thing right I Think you're going to want to see this under the tag on Oh Got our test pads there so there's our that was not our sensor. that is a lens. Once again, that could be a some sort of you know Germanium tight lens and there it is.

You can see the lens stuck to the bottom down there, but that is our sensor. Try not to spit when you're talking Dave There it is. You know that there's a 320 by 240 array. How close can I get? That's as close as I can get? There we go.

You can see all the traces. You see the bond wires going over. Very neat. This is the maximum zoom on the two gun.

Oh, it's not a unit. Igano is a microscope, but it's not a die microscope. You can see the various layers there on the die. That's fantastic.

And is the text. There's the text I See Oh 901 I Zero-one 2009 Copyright 2009 There you go. So that is not a new sensor. that is 2009 vintage.

thank you very much and this is I know. just etched away all the copper on top I Thought might have been some special substrate board or something. It's not. It's just your regular woven fiberglass.

- There you go as the sensor isn't that groovy. Woohoo! I Love the tag on a microscope. It's great. and I'm getting this sort of zoom level at so at what 300 millimeters working distance I mean that's just that's just nuts.

That's great That actually went together much nicer than it came apart I Would actually impressed by that I Still think it's over engineered in terms of physical complexity, but it's still pretty impressive. Nothing you can't fix with a hundred degree airgun. There you go that just came off. And the shielding they've got everywhere on this thing.

It's just absolutely crazy. So that's got full copper shielding right around. haha Wow Gilding the lily. So here's how the Mongols have assembled this.

It was physically impossible. Well, for this to be an assembly and get that ribbon cable back in there. Absolutely impossible. So what you do is now.

we can get in there and we can. just you know, insert that. No worries, right? It's a little bit tight, but no worries. we can get in there and do that and once it's done then that goes up.

We can take that off and then that goes through there at an angle like that feel that mongrels. And then they glue on the metal and then they glue on the faceplate. Unbelievable. LCD Part number for those playing along at home.

I Think we have a winner winner chicken dinner. It's doing something anyway. Man, this is really some evil piece of work. Let me tell you.

put that over over the back of that without putting stress on the ribbon cable and then that's got to go back in there. and then that's got to fold under there like that. should you ditch this bloody copper. He cares about that.

Ah, there we go. All right. I Think we got it. We got it and then that clean the screen first.

that's pretty clean and that will go back on the front. And Bob's your uncle. Yes my uncle and we did it. Yay Tada! like a bought one.

It's back and it works again. Oh by the way and one of the other things is you might be able to see here. you can see my fingers on the screen yet I am nowhere near the sensor at all. like my fingers are not under the sensor what it's doing is getting.

Even if I hold my hand on top here, you might be on up calibration you might see it coming through. Maybe it's getting reflection off there so if you haven't got anything nearby, it can actually reflect off there. but you saw a menu option in there to get the the heat reflected setting on that. But yeah, just be careful.

So that was a rather interesting teardown. I'm a very nicely designed and engineered as you'd expect I'm but you have a Standley is a little bit too dense how you doing the standard oh no, a bit cheap, kind of lets it down a bit, but yeah, that's an interesting bit of kit if you want to discuss it evey blob form down below somewhere. as always, catch you next time you.