[Jared Bouck] is on a roll this week. We just covered his Diamond thermal paste and now he’s got more for us. To celebrate the re design of his website, he has released the plans for the paintball turret. As you may recall, we absolutely loved this design when he originally showed it to us. Though he has had kits available for a while, he has finally put the plans up for download. You can cut your own parts and build it yourself. He mentions that version 2 is coming shortly, we wait with bated breath.

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Using an IR thermometer, there are two ways to go about building a thermographic camera. The first uses a pan and tilt head. Scan lines are emulated, as a computer controls panning from left to right, taking a temperature sample from each step. Vertical resolution is accomplished by tilting. Another method uses a web cam attached to the thermometer. The thermometer’s laser pointer is captured with temperature annotations, as the computer records the field of view. We think the best outcome can be found with a combination of both methods. The video embedded below demonstrates the results. This would…

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This afternoon Facebook has announced this year’s participants in the fbFund incubator program. Two out of the eighteen participants are non-profits, meaning that they will not receive any funding but will still be able to participate in the incubator program. We’ve discussed the fbFund on a number of occasions. Over a week ago we discussed 25 of the 50 fbFund finalists, the remaining 25 of which were never posted but some of them are in the list below.

fbFund has become an integral component of Facebook as they continue to expand their developer outreach. As all platform companies know, it’s…

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Today Facebook will announce 25 of the 50 fbFund finalists. The latest round of the fbFund was targeting Facebook Connect applications as well as iPhone applications although a number of general platform applications were also accepted into the fund. This is the second fbFund round in which finalists will have a chance to compete for seed investments of up to $100,000.

According to an upcoming blog post from Dave McClure, “10-week program will begin in mid-June and go thru end of August in Silicon Valley, and will be housed at one of the former Facebook offices in downtown Palo Alto.”…

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