Let s equip arduino with a serial interface jpeg camera with ir and try two applications.
Ir thermal camera arduino.
They are also called night vision cameras.
It s like those fancy thermal cameras but compact and simple enough for easy integration.
The software is also available on my thermal camera web site.
This sensor contains a 24x32 array of ir thermal sensors.
Library to control a lepton flir forward looking infrared thermal camera module from an arduino like board teensy 3 esp32 minimum.
This sensor from panasonic is an 8x8 array of ir thermal sensors.
Recently miniaturized cameras with serial communication interface have been launched on the market.
To make your arduino into a cool thermal camera we can add a small display.
You can now add affordable heat vision to your project with an adafruit mlx90640 thermal camera breakout.
To start the measurement i use a button.
When connected to your microcontroller or raspberry pi it will return an array of 64 individual infrared temperature readings over i2c.
The thermal camera just consists of the arduino uno which is reading the temperature and controlling the two servos.
The algorithm is quite simple.
This library allows communication with boards running a lepton flir thermal camera module.
It provides a wide range of functionality from adjustable memory footprint size adjustable temperature display mode fast chip select enable disable routines to exposing the full functionality of the thermal.
Here is a video of the thermal camera in action.
In this example we use an adafruit 1 44 color tft.
There is also a gallery of some images taken with the thermal camera.
Once you have uploaded the arduino sketch it s time to try it out.
You will need to use the java based thermal camera software that reads and renders the image.
With the program teraterm you can read the data.
It s like those fancy thermal cameras but compact and simple enough for easy integration.
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Read the temperature and go one servo step further.
You must have seen them in discovery or national geography channel where they used them to take pictures of animals in deep dark.
With some code changes you can use other size displays but a color display is best of course.
Lepton flir thermal camera module library.
The user interface is also translated into several languages.