The Firebrand team has been studying light and filters. Check out the image. You’ll see the graph measures intensity versus the shutter speed at one particular ISO setting. Notice the value for red is so large that the green and blue seem negligible. We have a BG-18 filter on order which will reduce the value of the red intensity and …

Our Firebrand team has been busy! We started off with interviewing a firefighter (appropriate since they are our main audience with this project) to understand the current technology and learn about their needs. We’ve also begun testing with a phone camera to give us a place to start. We’ve been using a heating rod as our standard heat source (to …

3 group meetings into Fall quarter, we’ve stabilized the goal for our project–make a practical and useful imaging device (a camera) to characterize the behavior of burning fire brands (originating from a forest fire, for instance) in order to predict and thus prevent said embers from igniting another fire nearby. How it all started… This collaborative project with several other …