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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 15: SD Card and Misc.

by on Oct.05, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have connected and wired up the SD Card to this Project. I can now successfully take pictures and save them onto the SD Card. I recompiled my RAWtoBMP program as well, it was compiled in debug mode, I recompiled it in release, so it should now run without requiring any dependencies. I also wired another button […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 14: RAWtoBMP Converter

by on Oct.04, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have created a small program to automatically convert all of the raw data from the Arduino Lepton project into a small, 80×60 .BMP file. I used the easyBMP library for the actual bitmap file handling, and a handy HSVtoRGB function that I found online to do to the HSVtoRGB conversion. I have created a file […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 13: TFT Screen

by on Oct.02, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have wired up the Adafruit TFT Screen to my Thermal Imager project. I am pleasantly surprised at the quality of it, it is working very well. I also took some pictures outside, but I could only display them on the screen since I haven’t implemented saving to an SD card yet. Other than the […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 12: Interpolation

by on Sep.30, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have finished my interpolation code. The resolution has increased, but not to the extent that I had hoped. I am noticing increased definition in the image, which is proof of concept at least. I think in general the image quality is good enough now, I don’t think I need to look into any more […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 11: False Colour Mapping 2

by on Sep.30, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

While implementing Interpolation, the next step in this project, I realised that the function I was using to convert the temperature values was not working correctly. Instead of returning smooth colour values between Red, Green, or Blue, it was returning EITHER Red, Green, or Blue. This was resulting in a very poor quality image. I […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 10: False Colour Mapping

by on Sep.27, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

  I have successfully implemented the heat map, or false colour map. The quality of the resulting image isn’t fantastic, but it is quite good. I am confident that with proper post processing, such as interpolating, smoothing, etc, I can increase the quality even more. I implemented the heatmap by first converting the temperature information […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 9: FLIR Lepton + Arduino Due: Success!

by on Sep.26, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have succeeded in interfacing with the Flir Lepton using the Arduino Due! I can now capture images from it. I actually had implemented code that was almost working (that I obtained from the Flir Dev Kit’s Google Group). But I could not understand it’s output values, so I decided to write a test program […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 8: FLIR Lepton + Raspberry Pi 2

by on Sep.26, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

It may not be possible to use an Arduino device with the Lepton. Even the ARM based Arduinos, such as the Due, may not be powerful enough to properly read data from the Thermal Imaging Camera. The reason for this is that the Lepton will go “out of sync” if the data is not read […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 7: FLIR Lepton + Arduino Due Integration Part 2

by on Sep.22, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have made some progress with the integration of the Lepton Module wth the Arduino Due. I found out that I was wiring Sda and Scl to the wrong pins of the Due board, I should have had them wired to Pinds 20 and 21, and I was wiring them to the “SCL1” and “SDA1” […]

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Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 6: 2.2″ FLIR Lepton + Arduino Integration

by on Sep.20, 2015, under Inventions, Tutorials

I have received my FLIR lepton module, an dam currently trying to integrate it into my project. This is proving to be more difficult than I thought. Even though I have enough RAM on the nano to do this, the clock speed (16MHZ) may not be fast enough to grab the data from the Lepton […]

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