Project for thermal camera (IR thermometer)

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I am very new to arduino and i would appreciate some help with my project.

Hi i was given SEN-10740 (from sparkfun) and told that i could use arduino with it. I have the demo codes, however im not sure if i have the right library and what board to download to run my codes.

i am suppose to display a thermal image or at least show the temperature of the surface of the human body(36.0°C- 37.6°C) either on the monitor or on a LCD screen

another trouble is that im not sure if i am supposed to connect the component to my pc with the FTDI cable directly or i should wire up through a respective arduino board.

Thank you.

attached is a picture of the given module and the examples of the display that i want to achieve and the demo code that i am trying out below:

#include <Wire.h>
#include <Adafruit_MLX90614.h>

Adafruit_MLX90614 mlx = Adafruit_MLX90614();

void setup() 
  Serial.begin(9600);

  Serial.println("Adafruit MLX90614 test");  

  mlx.begin();  
}

void loop() {
  Serial.print("Ambient = "); Serial.print(mlx.readAmbientTempC()); 
  Serial.print("*C\tObject = "); Serial.print(mlx.readObjectTempC()); Serial.println("*C");
  Serial.print("Ambient = "); Serial.print(mlx.readAmbientTempF()); 
  Serial.print("*F\tObject = "); Serial.print(mlx.readObjectTempF()); Serial.println("*F");

  Serial.println();
  delay(500);
}

Thermal image.JPG

SEN-10740.PNG

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Have you tried the Sparkfun Tutorial?

I just looked at it briefly, but it appears to be an I2C device, so you should be able to make it work on any Arduino family board.

The FTCI cable is a USB to TTL interface. It appears that the FTDI is for reading the thermometer on your PC. Not needed if you are planning an Arduino project.

Do post back with your success in this project.

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SteveMann:
Have you tried the Sparkfun Tutorial?

I just looked at it briefly, but it appears to be an I2C device, so you should be able to make it work on any Arduino family board.

The FTCI cable is a USB to TTL interface. It appears that the FTDI is for reading the thermometer on your PC. Not needed if you are planning an Arduino project.

Do post back with your success in this project.

Ive checked out the tutorials and they actually used another device SparkFun FTDI Basic Breakout to connect the SEN-10740. But is there any another way i can do it with just the SEN-10740 and the FTDI cable?

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First of all, you need to take the time to explain to us what you are trying to accomplish.

Are you planning to upload that sketch directly to the SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board - MLX90614, or are you going to upload it to a standard Arduino board, which will be connected to the SparkFun IR Thermometer Evaluation Board - MLX90614?

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The SEN-10740 IS an Arduino, with a remote IR thermometer built in. The thermometer part reports the average temperature of the entire field of view. Connection guide.

What is your plan for converting single temperature measurements into an image?