Is it possible to get the images traced by an 88 Adafruit AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera on Serial Monitor instead of using an 88 display screen ?
If yes please mention how the coding part will be done
How do you want to represent the readings?
As text?
Character representation of grey scale images
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February 1997
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Hello GrooveFlotilla & johnwasser,
Thank a lot for responding back
GrooveFlotilla as far as your question is concerned I want to see the real time images on serial monitor using Adafruit AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera just like our conventional CCTV cameras (but am interested in thermal images not normal ones)
johnwasser how is working with gray scale images going to help me because i am looking up for thermal images
The serial monitor is a text interface.
Your question to @johnwasser is bizarre, and seems to me to betray a lack of understanding of your own problem.
yode:
johnwasser how is working with gray scale images going to help me because i am looking up for thermal images
Are the thermal images not greyscale? Each pixel is represented by a single float value. The values that come from the chip are 12-bit sign-magnitude integers. They would easily fit in a 16-bit 'int' but the library converts them to 'float', possibly for future expansion.
I think the OP wants to display false color images, and does not realize that this is not possible on the serial monitor.
If you want a false colour display, you could write a very simple Processing application to parse the serial stream and produce a display on the PC.
The false colour comes from the final colour lookup table in the application, not any property of the data.
@johnwasser my apologies for the misinterpretation, you are correct as far as the gray scale images part is concerned, I also understood how the data storage takes place, but will it be possible for me to get real time thermal images on serial monitor. Please elaborate on this....Thank you.
@jremington thanks for being a part of the discussion, @GrooveFlotilla thanks for the reply and yes am planning to have a false color display. According to the heat signatures am planning to have thermal images of animals using AMG8833 IR Thermal Camera and I want to have those real time images on serial monitor
You seem to be having some trouble understanding the concept of an ASCII text-based interface, like, for example, the serial monitor.
Have another think about using Processing.
yode:
will it be possible for me to get real time thermal images on serial monitor.
I may be possible but I don't think it will look good.
but will it be possible for me to get real time thermal images on serial monitor.
No. But you can send the data (64 temperature values) via the Arduino serial port to some other program on a PC or Mac that would convert those numbers into an 8x8 pixel, false color image.
@jremington would you be able to elaborate on that and suggest me some softwares as well
Actually am trying to get that done using Matlab but haven't found anything helpful yet
Thank you all for your replies
Matlab can certainly display gray scale images in false color.
All you have to do is convert the 64 data values into an 8x8 matrix and display it with the appropriate routines.