Project 136: Thermal Imager Project Update 6: 2.2″ FLIR Lepton + Arduino Integration
by PhoenixGames 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 module. If the clock speed isn’t fast enough the lepton will go out of sync, and I will be unable to grab the image.
I am also attempting to use the Arduino Due, which has both a much faster processor (84MHZ) and more RAM (96KB), but I am having issues connecting to the lepton with this as well. I believe the issue in this case to either be issues with accessing the Lepton using the SPI bus, or issues with the low-level commands on the Due which are used to access the lepton itself. These commands are different on the Due than they are on the Lepton.
The google group for the Flir Dev kit, located HERE, is an invaluable resource when dealing with these issues.
