ThermoGun - Realtek Ameba RTL8710/RTL8195

Descriptions

With COVID-19 still wreaking havoc globally, causing thousands of deaths, millions hospitalized, any useful medical device is on high demand, especially household medical device like IR non-contact thermometer 🌡🔫. Handheld thermometer usually is on high price point and is hard to come by these days, but the components needed to make thermometer are not that expensive, that give us the perfect reason to DIY one during this lockdown period.

This project use Ameba Dev. board RTL8710AF from Realtek, which then connects to an OLED display to show temperature data obtained from the MLX90615 IR sensor. Pushing the push button not only perform data acquisition and visualization, but also publish the data via MQTT to all subscribers.

Step1

Finish up all hardware connections by following picture.

Step2

Download Arduino IDE, install Ameba RTL8195 board.

refer to https://www.amebaiot.com/en/ameba-arduino-getting-started/

Upload the code into board and power up the system by battery..

Step3

Source code refer to the link

https://github.com/Realtek-AmebaApp/Ameba_Examples/tree/master/RTL8195AM/007_THERMOGUN

Official pages

https://www.amebaiot.com/en/

Facebook Group

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