I've pulled the thermal imaging video.

Such a video is very dangerous as people without medical training would not be able to make any sense out of the readings. For example, drinking alcohol increases the body's surface temperature due to increased heat loss.

No need. There are some videos that I put up knowing they will be demonetized (usually for naughtiness) but I still put them up because they offer variety. There are also some I deliberately disable monetization on from the start.

Big Clive

Clive, everytime one of your videos gets demonetized, let me know and I'll wire you $100.

I stand corrected.

Steve Askey

This virus is actually SARS-CoV-2 branching from that more virulent strain that came out over a decade ago. Armchair ___, DKE, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect We’re seeing a modern day cultural revolution due to “likes” being prioritized over brainpower. Clive has a great presentation style, and steers from his wheelhouse. Keep it up. If it’s more for a specific audience perhaps no comments can keep you sane⁉️

Cerity

*pushes glasses up on nose* WELL ACTUALLY :D Sars-cov-2 is the virus, covid-19 is the disease, coronavirus is the family name, pain in the fecking arse is what it actually is. And it can get fecked right in the fecking ear. Eight-year-olds should be able to hug their grandparents on their birthday :(

Mark Dennehy

I suppose that technically speaking Covi-19 is one of many variants of the generic group of coronaviruses. It's just currently the one that's the most unpopular.

Big Clive

Nice try though, Clive. Maybe next time you know something will get demonetized you should keep it Patreon supporters only. Lol

Youtube are muppets. Was interesting to see a mini review, I havent looked at any reviews but it looks like it could be very handy for anyone into electronics.

Ðementation

As long as the pink plastic does not smell fishy 😂

Graham Eida

And which part of that statement is wrong?

Enjoyed the video Clive, but I thought you would get flack for it. Incidently I've just heard an "expert" from the "mainstream" media state that "Covid-19 is the disease caused by coronavirus". Strange times - stay safe.

Steve Askey

Yep YT can be a pain with demonetising things of value

Robert

It's always a shame to hear that the truth isn't worthy of corporate attention... I always enjoy videos that delve into the mechanics of things, regardless of what that is, and it's all the more interesting and fun if it comes from someone like you. Thank you for keeping the video as unlisted for now - and maybe with more Patreon donators we can have a few more important videos, regardless of their monetization status.

Xasin

A real shame. Your video was interesting, and described a perfectly valid test that could be made with available equipment.

Keith Lambell

Thank you! Watching it now.

Mike Cowen

It's up again as unlisted. I've posted it here as a new video.

Big Clive

Clive, can you please post the private link here. I cannot view it through the link posted here previously. Thanks!

Mike Cowen

Doh, that sucks. I missed it.

James Sutherland

You’re absolutely right about the Media, Clive! There are several of my friends and co-workers who have had it and were told, “There’s no need to test them” because they recovered. HOW can we get an accurate infection and mortality rate if they blow-off people who got sick and made it through?!? Ignoring this only falsely inflates the mortality rate, because it isn’t counting the healed, keeping people in fear.

Dave Pursley

Missed it.

Milkshiekh

Aw, too bad I missed it. I’m sure it was very cool. err... warm? 😈

Dave Pursley

I enjoyed i, and i may want to purchase a FlirPro USB C

Daniel Kent

I really enjoyed the video, thanks! Glad I saw it before it went down.

John Huntington

Depending on what kind of thermal camera resolution you can cope with, there are a lot of cheaper options these days. FLIR themselves have their smartphone-attached cameras that use FLIR's same Lepton sensor that's used for a lot of their professional cameras, including the one Clive has, I believe. Those are £200 for the base model or £400 for one that, amongst other things, can give absolute temperature readings (rather than just pretty colours). The Seek brand has a whole range of competing products that use Seek's own thermal sensor and which perform pretty well - albeit without the "overlaid edge detection from a [usually-unaligned] visible-light camera" feature that FLIR uses and which is still under patent. There are some Chinese-made cameras for £100-200 or so that I think use some kind of Chinese-developed thermal sensor; I'm not really sure what those are like. And more recently there are a couple of products that look rather like they were designed by a Chinese electronics hobbyist and are being widely sold on AliExpress for under £100, IIRC. They use the same Melexis MLX90640 32×24-resolution thermal imaging sensor that's available on its own module from AliExpress - or for slightly *less* money from Pimoroni in the UK (the Pimoroni module is pretty much just the bare sensor, while the Chinese modules for some reason add a STM32 microcontroller to the board so that you can talk to it via UART in addition to the sensor's usual I²C interface...). Those products combine that sensor with a display, Li-Ion battery, simple user interface, and I think a USB interface for transferring thermal image captures, to give a standalone, handheld tool. Again, I've no idea what the software/firmware is like on those, and that 32×24 resolution is pretty limiting, but it can also be very usable for certain applications and that's probably one of the cheapest ways to get a usable thermal camera. (Note that there are also products/modules on AliExpress that use the even-cheaper AMG8833(?) sensor but that's only 8×8 thermal pixels and it isn't that much cheaper than the MLX90640, and I personally don't think it's worth the huge reduction in image resolution for a very modest price cut. So be careful to distinguish those if you go hunting :)) I've got two of Pimoroni's MLX90640 modules to play with, but the software support for the bare modules is *very* limited currently (there's some provided C code for talking to it, but only some very basic Python(?) code examples for actually displaying the read data anywhere), so I'm hoping I'll find the time to improve upon that situation at some point...

Andrew

Damned restrictions. It was turning into an interesting debate.

Andrew Donaldson

So you're gonna take a Lovense Lush apart soon, then?

I think one of our boys has a CAT phone but an older one. I recall him showing it to me some time ago. He works in construction and has killed quiet a few phones over the years. It would be fun to have a real thermal camera just to mess around with.

Got the Idea, passed it along on Facebook, good video, I'm filling little glass viles with , you guessed it glow in the dark resin mix...Gov Cuomo (New York) we are now in Virginia, he just said they think 80% of us will end up with the virus, so at least I'll have little viles that glow in the dark !

I watched (and enjoyed it) earlier. I like the look of this phone, in particular, it big battery!

Thing is, now I want one of those phones just becuase FLIR cameras are nifty :D And they're over five hundred quid. Argh.

Mark Dennehy

Love ya but the hysteria is not worth getting caught up with...

Michael Gilchrest

Probably for the best Clive...

Michael Gilchrest

I thought the video was quite useful

Chipmunk

It was pointing out that it could absolutely detect a feverish virus carrier in a group of people. That could be any cause of a fever, but right now it would be wise to be separating someone showing signs of illness from the general public until the cause was identified.

Big Clive

Probably for the best. You're not a medical expert and the video title was clearly misrepresenting the efficacy.

When I visited Taiwan about 10 years ago this was still SOP for getting off of a plane. They mad everyone walk down a long hallway with IR cameras down the length of it and pull you aside at a desk at the end if you’re out of range. I’m naturally a hot guy and though for sure I’d be pulled over but no issues.

The Griffiths Family

I think a part of it may be so many people at home bored. They have all day to actively hate people on the internet.

Nani Isobel

It was a useful video and I’ve got one of the FLIR modules for my iPhone that’s been very handy for locating a raccoon nest in our attic, diagnosing problems with our radiant flooring, as well as locating our black cat that was hiding in dark places when we moved to a new house. Didn’t occur to me that you could check humans for infection but makes sense. Maybe I should take it with me when I go shopping just for fun. I’ve signed off Facebook for the time being because the level of stupid on there was as mindblowing as election season.

The Griffiths Family

Just reupload using the term "lager lurgy" instead of "Corona Virus".

It was a demo and of course including clive-tones. That’s my tm, heh for smoothe clive, jazz until noon. So look up the cat s61 on yourube instead, seek to the actual infrared bit and imagine clive talking techy. Or just overlay either TP video and watch

Cerity

Too bad I didn't circle back to see the comments. Thought it was a good watch.

Do another video as a review of the Thermal imager phone. Just don't mention any of the buzz words

Charles Bruckner

That's just fugging insane. We're not at epic disaster levels yet, but clearly IR temperature checks are a non-intrusive and reasonable precaution. There's still an amazing number of idiots in the US who are denying that there is any danger whatsoever.

Paul Ste. Marie

They're incredibly useful. A very valuable workshop and site tool.

Big Clive

I bought a FLIR One for Android a few years ago. By far the best drunken amazon purchase I've made in years.

Didn't see the video unfortunately - but didn't china do thermal imaging from drones - for this exact purpose? - https://dronedj.com/2020/02/26/dji-uses-a-cotton-swab-to-fight-against-coronavirus/

Steve Lemon

A shower of very venomous comments. I think trolls are actively hunting for videos about the virus.

Big Clive

That's a good point. Some of the comments were so deranged and venomous that I felt a need to remove it completely.

Big Clive

Oh FFS, who are these muppets? I can't even fathom as to how someone would find this problematic (to coin a popular snowflake-ism); You're using technology to potentially help detect people potentially carrying a pathogen. Oh, and I now want a CAT S61, thanks :)

The phone is OK, but the firmware is lacking. It doesn't have the latest processor, but still lags other phones with the same processor. There's a new Chinese phone with the same thermal sensor, but the manufacturer does not seem to have confidence in their own product. The offered me one if I did a biased positive review video. I declined and said I'd test it properly and do an honest review. They retracted their offer.

Big Clive

Couldn't you keep it just for Patreon? Is there an option to not let it out into the Youtube wilds?

Erik Erik

"I'll stick to taking pink plastic electronic things apart." Please do. It may be mauve or green too, as long as it has a horrendous colour, contains risk of electrocution, produces awful noises or has questionable usefulness (or any of the above combined).

Jeroen van Oosten

:(

Michael Dunn

It's too bad I missed that video, it sounds interesting

It was released here yesterday.

Big Clive

Did someone threaten you⁉️

Cerity

Didn't get a Chance to see it, maybe reupload it as unlisted?

The media has done the usual stellar job of presenting selected facts that imply the death rate is higher. They have ignored the people who had a brief virus and then recovered without seeking medical attention or even a formal diagnosis.

Big Clive

If you never push your boundaries, you don't know where they stand. Still, it is a shame you've had to remove it.

You should have put up the video without the ability to add comments.

Shaun Runham

Apparently it was effective at detecting folks with issues other than a fever...

Mike Schwab

That video has been getting lots of really naive questions asked. I have to tell people to actually watch the video to understand the safety issues. I've a horrible feeling that people have been buying things like that without understanding how dangerous they are.

Big Clive

snowflakes...seems like a clever idea in todays climate, i'm expected to sit in a safety briefing every morning with 30 other men in a small room which is a contradiction in terms but would be a good idea for an initial check of peoples temps without contact before everyone enters the room.... i was looking at them, can you give us a review instead Clive as i heard mixed reports but the phone seems an ideal thing for my job especially with the air quality also

Julian Butler

Maybe patreon only videos when you want to do more then take pink shit apart? The general public are a bunch of ass hats.

Jay

I actually checked to make sure it hadn't synced on LBRY. It got such a hostile reaction from the naysayers that I felt it could have a negative impact on the channel.

Big Clive

I'd recommend replacing an LED fairy light with another LED. They are often wired in complex series/parallel arrays.

Big Clive

As interesting as it was, I prefer a bit of escapism (being in isolation for however long) ...so pink plastic is ok with me.

Phil in the kitchen

I tried to present it in a logical way, but the doom-mongers are out in force at the moment.

Big Clive

What about your lbry?

Vimeo...

Clive these are weird times. I'm sorry man.

Michael Thompson

People are predictably jumpy.. take no notice.. this may irritate you but what would be a good resistor value to replace an led fairy light?

That sucks. My parents had a guy come to their house to do an 'energy audit', and he let me play with the FLIR camera for a while (YAY!), and I could see the warm spots left on the carpet by the dogs' paws for 5 minutes or so after they had walked there! I was blown away. The energy auditors use FLIR with a lot more pixels than the CAT phone, I was disappointed when I looked up the specs for the resolution.

Okay. I'm puzzled why you would take that course, but you're the creator, so you get to decide what to post, and that is okay. (So long as I don't hafta eat any of that stuff you periodically sample!)

I figured you'd have to take it down. It was an interesting idea but not everyone is thinking rationally right now.

Is it possible just to post here? Rename it and keep it patreon only?

Doh! I didn't get a chance to watch. I don't suppose you'd consider re-upping, perhaps just for us other naughty individuals if necessary?

Richard Robinson

It seemed like a perfectly practical and useful video to me.

Wim

What are people afraid of? That they unknowingly have the virus and someone else tells them?

Mike Bird

I liked it.

Adam Pepper

🤦‍♂️

Ryan Coleman

That sucks. How about more build videos! I always enjoyed those. Kits or home brewed.

"taking pink plastic electronic things apart" we just need to find a PINK thermal imaging camera (i still am lowkey curious if the phone capable for long term operation as a thermal camera, completely not practical curiosity of course)

Michael Vokabre

Stick to what you know best. BUT one of the first videos I ever saw of yours was about the UV-C lights in Asia... Any chances of revisiting that?

Ryan Coleman

Yeah best pull it, if it's causing extreme reaction

Tazz1669

That is disappointing. People are stupid.

Mark Trombley

Fucking marp.

Jerry Gepes