Real Time FLIR Lepton Imagery with Raspberry Pi3+

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Accidently an art earlier with one of my FLIR Lepton 3.5 chips (~$100 each) I recently picked up on Ebay for a decent price. A completely bastardized home brew version of popular thermal imagery cameras with a breakout board built by GetLabs from groupgets.com ($40) and soldered to a raspberry Pi 3B.. As you can see from the picture below my nice wizard art.

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Below you can see the abomination of a camera setup I've built.. Sitting on kevlar gloves and my bench top power supply.. Skirted to the left by a lazer module and some bone conducting transducers.. Excuse the mess, my office lab is always jsut a step behind a full on disaster.

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Here we see the 3 default colour pallets the Lepton seems to support, color options can be customized though ased on how you compile the palletes part of the program used to scrape pics.

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White hot mode seen below was accomplished by simply reversing the minimum / maximum colour allotment.. Pretty damn cool if you ask me,

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Being only a 160px x 120px Lepton 3.5 chip... THe resolution ain't spectacular.. But it works!

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Even to do weird shit like see the heat carried inside your veins with your blood. Frickin cool eh?

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Did I mention "Predator" mode colours? Feeling my inner Yautja with this.. Bottom lightsaber is a solder iron believe it or not. Kinda damn neat if you ask me. Infrared from 8um - 15um wavelength.

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Ok that's some interesting technology :)
Good find
!PIZZA

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Cheap too! I can remember when you couldn't even sniff a consumer Long Wave Infrared system for less than thousands of dollars.. I think I paid less than $300 for the stuff to basically make 2 of them.. Looking at their more advanced chips now.. This tech is certainly a great addition to any nerds toy box.

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Do you have a practical use case in mind?

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Making IR / low lux digital NVG.

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That's very interesting and that gives you power over your cat? :)

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Ukraine war seemed to point towards you either have thermals or someone with them kills you... So I got some.

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Extremely nifty. I love decentralization in the hands of brilliant people.

Thanks!

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It's affordable as well.. Hell for less that $500 I have enough to make 2 working FLIR units. Easily.

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Hmmmm... Let me know if you end up with a spare. I could cobble up a headset and enclosure to keep the innards dry and safe from bashing. I can only wear things on my head safe from bashing, as my head is bash bait.

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