The Adafruit AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera board can provide a “FLIR™”-like imaging camera at about 1/10th the price of previous IR Thermal imaging units. Of course, the resolution and sensitivity are not as high as more advanced cameras, but hey, for $39 it’s a great deal.
With this project, I took the excellent Adafruit tutorial Raspberry Pi Thermal Camera by Dean Miller and added extra functionality to the software and hardware.
New Features:- Safely shutdown/power up Raspberry
- Automatically runs software at powerup
- Battery Powered for portability
- Uses PiTFT GPIO buttons
- Sensitivity controls
- Potential for future additions
- 3D Printed front case parts for the camera
- Switch to using Raspberry Pi Zero W for lower cost & power/smaller size
- Add new mode button features for middle buttons
- Get pygame Touch Screen working for PiTFT
- Add Camera Screen Snapshot feature
Russell Grokett
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