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MertsA on April 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Motion-Sensing Keyboard

A lot of plastic is already IR transparent but totally opaque in the visible spectrum. You can hack a cheap camera and take out the IR filter to make a neat "xray camera".

kleim on April 30, 2014 [–]

There are even so-called "Black-Ops Plastics" specifically designed to be fully IR transparent: http://qwonn.com/black-ops-plastics.html

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