Things used in this project

Hardware components

Adafruit AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera Breakout

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Software apps and online services

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

Future Enhancements (coming soon)

  • 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

See GITHUB for details.

https://github.com/rgrokett/RaspiThermalCam

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