Grove Thermal Imaging Camera 55deg (MLX90640)

PRODUCT DETAILS

Key Features

• IR Thermal Sensor Array 32X24(MLX90640)
• 55°x35° FOV(field of view)
• Temperature measurement range:-40℃~300℃
• I2C Grove interface

Description

Looking for a thermal sensor that can detect your surround temperature? This IR thermal camera can not only measure the value of temperature around you but also display the thermal imaging figure. So it must be your best choice to monitor the temperature change from this tiny camera.

The IR thermal camera carries a 32x24 array of thermal sensors (MLX90640), it can detect the temperature of objects from feet away with the accuracy of ±1.5℃. In order to obtain the thermal image easily, the I2C protocol is used to get the low-resolution image from the camera. The FOV(Field of View) of this camera is 55°x35°, and the temperature measurement range is -40℃~300℃.

This module connects the MCU with the I2C interface. However, it needs an MCU that has over 20000 bytes of RAM to drive the camera. As a matter of fact, Dev board like Arduino Uno can not be used with this Sensor camera due to its lower ability of calculation. We recommend you to choose Arch Mix as an MCU to control the camera because it really has an excellent performance to process the complex data from the IR sensor camera.

Note

This thermal imaging sensor is also compatible with many Arduino boards and Seeeduino boards which are assembled with SAMD21/SAMD51 like Seeeduino Lotus Cortex - M0. And it also supports all series of Raspberry Pi including Raspberry Pi Zero.

Considering your convenience of using this camera, we have figured out all the libraries like Arduino Library and Python commend in Seeed's wiki page, so you can run up this IR camera module easily for just a few minutes.

Specification

Part List

• 1*Grove - Thermal Imaging Camera / IR Array MLX90640 55 degree

Note

This product has a Grove interface that needs Grove Cable to connect with.

Links

• Wiki Grove - Thermal Imaging Camera / IR Array
• Project Grove - Thermal Imaging Camera IR Array (MLX90641) with Wio Terminal Video
• MLX90640 datasheet