MLX90640 Thermal Camera Wide Angle 110°

MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout: wide angle field of view (110°)

The MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout is an elegant and sophisticated 32×24 pixel thermal camera breakout. You can monitor the temperature of your coffee pot or of your CPU thanks to this sensor.

This Thermal Camera Breakout helps you build also your personal heat-seeking night vision camera. This camera breakout works with Raspberry Pi or Arduino.

It is the ideal product for building into scientific or industrial projects – or just to have fun with it, as it is notably cheaper than most other thermal cameras. This breakout makes the use of the camera with Raspberry Pi and Arduino very easy. It uses I2C and 3-6V supply.

Field of view: wide angle 110°.

This MLX90640 far-infrared camera is an array of 768 (32×24) thermal sensors. These sensors can recognize temperatures in a range from -40 to 300°C and with an accuracy of approximately 1°C and up to 64FPS. This camera grants several interesting applications: it can measure the heat or calculate heat dissipation of devices such as CPUs, electrical appliances or circuit boards. It can be used to recognize thermal inefficiencies in your home. It can detect presence and identify bodies in utter darkness. By scanning a person’s skin, it can determine their body temperature.

MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout features are:

• Melexis MLX90640 far-infrared sensor array (datasheet)
• 32×24 pixels
• Field of view: 110°x75°
• Up to 64FPS
• -40 to 300°C detection with an accuracy of approximately 1°C
• I2C interface (address 0x33)
• It is 3.3V or 5V compatible
• Reverse polarity protection
• Compatible with all Raspberry Pi models, and with some Arduino models

The MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout set includes:

• MLX90640 breakout
• 1×5 male header
• 1×5 female right-angle header

This Thermal Camera breakout board is designed so that the female right-angle header can be soldered on. Then, the breakout can be popped straight onto pins 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, that are the bottom left 5 pins on your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO header.

Software
Get the MLX90640 Python Library. This software is written in C to help you generate video and images from the MLX90640 cameras.
Find out this example Arduino/Processing sketch for the MLX90640, provided by SparkFun.

Raspbian Wheezy is not supported by the Python library.

IMPORTANT
As the camera’s pins on the breakout board push through friction-fit holes, the camera is allowed to be swapped out, if and when necessary. For extra security, the pins can also be soldered.

If you prefer the version of this camera with a 55° field of view, you can find it at the following link: Pimoroni MLX90640 Thermal Camera Standard Angle.

Pimoroni name: MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout – Standard (110°) [PIM366]