Makertober Day 8: Thermal Camera

I suppose there should be more to making things than just plugging together devices and running their example programs….. However, until that time: here’s an M5Stack device connected to a thermal camera. M5Stack sell a camera unit but I used one sold by Pimoroni to be used with their breakout garden. Both devices are based on the same camera unit, the MLX90640 that gives 32x24 pixels of heat readings. I got the M5Stack sample program from GitHub which I found here. It works very well. At the moment these cameras are pretty much impossible to get hold of - I’ve had this one lying around for a while.

You can also use the camera with a Raspberry Pi although they are rather hard to get hold of at the moment.