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Best thermal/ir camera (dev kit) for embedded linux board?
want2cthermal:
Hey guys,
I'm looking for a thermal camera to hook up to an embedded linux board (raspberry, beaglebone, etc).
I found the FLiR dev kit which connects over spi to linux boards, but it's resolution is only 80x60. I've been reading as many posts as I can, admittedly not all since many threads are well over 100+ pages, but I see there is some firmware flash to get the flir to a better resolution? Would that work for this? - https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13233
I'm also considering the Seek thermal cameras, which appear to have USB connectors and have SDK's that come with them so I can start coding out of the box. Are there any Seek cameras which have codes in C or C++ & work with ARM embedded boards?
So shortly said, I'm a C coder (but I can live w/C++ too) and I want to connect it to any embedded linux board, but need something w/working sample codes as I won't be able to write a driver from scratch for that.
The application is to monitor wildlife at out animal refuge. I saw youtube videos that the higher resolution flir e4 can easily see 150+ meters with zoom. That's what I'd really like to get!
Do these thermal cameras normally come with a /dev/camera interface on linux like other cameras do? I'd really like to use it with opencv.
What would your commendation be? My post is kind of all over the place, sorry about that, just looking for some guidance really.
Thanks
tomas123:
there are some raspberry pi projects in this forum
Flir One 160x120
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Flir Ex 320x240
--- Quote from: tmbinc on March 10, 2015, 07:56:12 pm ---A few hundred lines of code later (simply record all frames with a max temp of higher than some threshold, re-mapping to 8-bit, then encoding as mp4), I got a good picture of the beast:
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want2cthermal:
Hey Tomas, thanks a lot for your help!
Do you know where I can buy that Flir Ex 320x240 that ships to US? I would also need to buy the breakout board that accepts the lens & allows me to connect the SPI pins directly w/out soldering, right? My normal suppliers, adafruit and sparkfun, don't seem to carry that.
I'm still reading through all your posts, but it looks like you have gotten a good control of the camera, and it looks like you did all that without help from Flir. Nice!
tomas123:
there is a long thread about buy a cheap E4 camera and hack it to 320x240
--- Quote from: ixfd64 on November 22, 2016, 06:22:33 pm ---FLIR is offering a $100 discount on the E4 for Black Friday: http://flir.com/blackfriday2016
Just an FYI.
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want2cthermal:
Thanks, but I'm not looking to buy the entire hand held device, just the lens sensor (no screen, buttons, etc) and the breakout board. This all looks pretty vaguely documented and kind of "may or may not work", heh. I'm probably just going to get the dev kit from sparkfun and hope it can be hacked to higher resolution.
I saw in one of your posts you had a breakout board for the flir and rpi camera connected to the board. Where did you buy that breakout board from?
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