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One of the most interesting and complex parts of this project has been figuring out how to send and receive data to and from the Robot. Originally, I had planned to use a conventional radio system. I was going to have a transmitter connected to an Arduino. I would use this to send commands from […]

I believe I am almost finished with my knife making project, or at least, the forging part of it. I replaced the fan that I was using with a much more powerful one, and noticed a huge improvement in performance. The fan forces oxygen into the forge, and this is what controls the temperature, not […]

I believe I have finished the prototype of this project. I have not yet made the housing or mounting for it, but the actual functionality is done. I think it worked out well, and the resolution of the images is high, except that the Thermal Camera needs some residual source of heat to produce decent […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]