You can add heat-vision to your project with an Adafruit AMG8833 Grid-EYE Breakout.
This sensor from Panasonic is an 8x8 array of IR thermal sensors. When connected to your microcontroller (or raspberry Pi) it will return an array of 64 individual infrared temperature readings over I2C.
It's like a thermal camera, but compact and simple enough for easy integration.
This part will measure temperatures ranging from 0°C to 80°C (32°F to 176°F) with an accuracy of +- 2.5°C (4.5°F). It can detect a human from a distance of up to 7 meters (23) feet. With a maximum frame rate of 10Hz.
It's perfect for creating your own human detector or mini thermal camera. With a bit of image processing help from the SciPy python library, you are able to interpolate the 8 x 8 grid to get some results.
The AMG8833 is the next generation of thermal IR sensors from Panasonic, and offers higher performance than it's predecessor the AMG8831. The sensor only supports I2C, and has a configurable interrupt pin that can fire when any individual pixel goes above or below a threshold that you set.
To make it easy to use, Adafruit have pick & placed it on a breakout board with a 3.3V regulator and level shifting, so you can use it with any 3V or 5V microcontroller or computer.
- This camera has 4 mounting holes, and two header strips.
- Only the bottom strip is connected to the sensor.
- Handy connectors so you can simply plug in the sensor, no soldering required
- With supporting software libraries to get you up in running in just a few lines of code.
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| Type |
Breakout board |
| Communicates |
12C |
| Compatible |
Raspberry Pi |
| Distance |
7M |
| Heat Sensor |
Panasonic |
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