“A well designed breakout module with MLX90640 thermal camera. The standard viewing angle (55°) is very suitable for in-door use. I use it without problems with an Arduino-style system (ODROID-GO). Shipping was quick and the article was well packaged.”
“I bought the wide angle version of this sensor. This sensor has a lot of potential, within an hour of plugging it in and following the steps on github, I managed to get the test.py working which takes a snapshot image, and echos all 768 temp readings to the screen, so it looks good for my purposes where I want to search for temperatures that are close to (36°C) to (37°C) and plot these results. I need to learn how to filter out only what I want, and represent that in a new image, but the example provided is a good start.”
“Nice little camera for the money. As mentioned in the other reviews, you'll need to remove the libi2c-dev library before building the sample code.
I ended up using a project called fb2png to grab the frame buffer and convert it to PNG. There is some Python code but I haven't been able to get it to work yet.
I'm using it with a Pi Zero and I'll probably end up getting a small screen to make a portable camera. Using the 55° one I'm only able to get useful readings from objects about a foot away unless they're very hot (like a kettle).”
“Great thermal camera, with good resolution compared to the other options out there. Used it with a teensy3.5 and a tft screen to build a handheld thermal camera.”
“Nice little module that comes with a female header that can be placed right on the Pi's GPIO pins. Got it up and running with a Pi Zero without too much difficulty and have been able to see where the cold spots are in our house.”
