Flir Lepton Thermal Camera Breakout

I have a serious question about this. The breakout board is made to fit onto arduino boards, but as I understand it only the Due, with a different pinout, has enough memory to actually capture an image off the board. What is the benefit of lining the pins up in that fashion?
I'd like to know if anyone actually has got this board to function on an Arduino of any flavor beyond just sending it commands, as in can I communicate with the camera while obtaining images?
donfelipe