Standard (55°) – MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout
Description
A sophisticated, hackable, 32×24 pixel thermal camera breakout! Use it to monitor the temperature of your CPU or coffee pot, or to build your own heat-seeking night vision camera. Works with Raspberry Pi or Arduino.
It’s perfect for building into projects – industrial, scientific, or just fun – and much more affordable than most thermal cameras. Our breakout makes it easy to use the camera with your Raspberry Pi or Arduino, using I2C and 3-6V supply. And it’s available in two different fields of view, 55° (standard) or 110° (wide angle) depending on your preference.
The MLX90640 far-infrared camera is an array of 768 (32×24) thermal sensors that can detect temperatures from -40 to 300°C with approximately 1°C accuracy and up to 64FPS! The applications of this camera are manifold: measure the heat or heat dissipation of devices like CPUs, circuit boards, or electrical appliances; use it to identify thermal inefficiencies in your home; or use it for presence detection to identify bodies in complete darkness.
It’s also compatible with our fancy new Breakout Garden , where using breakouts is as easy just popping it into one of the six slots and starting to grow your project, create, and code.
Features
- Melexis MLX90640 far-infrared sensor array (datasheet)
- 32×24 pixels
- Field of view: 55°x35° or 110°x75°
- Up to 64FPS
- -40 to 300°C detection with approximately 1°C accuracy
- I2C interface (address 0x33)
- 3.3V or 5V compatible
- Reverse polarity protection
- Compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi, and with certain Arduino models
Kit includes
- MLX90640 breakout
- 1×5 male header
- 1×5 female right-angle header
We’ve designed this breakout board so that you can solder on the piece of right-angle female header and pop it straight onto the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header (pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9).
Software
We’ve written software in C that you can use to generate images and video from the MLX90640 cameras.
SparkFun also provide an example Arduino/Processing sketch for the MLX90640.
Our software does not support Raspbian Wheezy.
Price: £ 54