Mini thermal camera core - Sofradir atom80

[liteon]

Hey guys,

What kind of thermal camera is this with just a single board? Any insights? Mike, THE E4 tearer?
It uses Ulis Micro80p sensor..

What is that connecter for? Maybe, there are more boards, and this is just a sensor board, but why is that connecter on the sensor board?

-Liteon

[Marco]

It's an integrated module with USB 2.0, just needs a lens and housing ... that said, that's pretty obvious.

If you're doing stealth advertising could you tell us something interesting like a price? :p

[liteon]

No. Not doing any ad.
Just a newbie and trying to understand why would someone put an FPGA just below/so close to the sensor if you say its a module already, assuming it has an FPGA.

[cyr]

Well, why not?

If you are optimizing for cost and small size, having everything on one tiny board is an obvious advantage.

[amyk]

USB? This is just a little closer to the idea of cheap thermal webcams becoming available...

[scientist]

That USB is probably just for FPGA programming, not data transfer.

[daedalus]

the usb is for getting image data, but its only an 80x80 sensor, so not a lot of data to transfer

[firewalker]

Mu Optics? 

Alexander.

[daedalus]

in case anyones interested, theres a datasheet here http://www.ircores.com/landing_atom80.html

[scientist]

For $150 I'd buy it...