Some Python code takes care of converting it into an image. Perhaps you don’t need a camera, but having a way to communicate with an $11 IR temperature sensor might come in handy someday.
The FIRST Navy thermal imager is installed in Polarstern's crow's nest at a height of about 28 m above water on a highly stabilized platform (white basis). The sensor head (green) rotates at 5 ...
Then I had a different idea: Convert it to shoot images in infrared. Converting a camera to shoot infrared means the sensor is altered to be sensitive only to infrared light. Though it's ...