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MTheCam

A Simple Mini Thermal Camera

Did you blow the candle out? And was the hob turned off? Everyone has, at some point, experienced that nagging feeling after leaving the house that some heat source or other might still be on and poised to do untold damage. Now you can find out using MTheCam and your smartphone. The project described here is based on an eight-by-eight pixel thermal sensor from Panasonic that, naturally, has many other applications.

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Sven Bäuerle 4 years ago

AMG8833 module from aliexpress works too.

change in MTheCam_LT -> MTCDevice.h the Pinout

M5StickC: SCL=G26 SDA=G0, MTCADRESS=0x69 or 0x68 (AD0 HIGH=0x69, LOW=0x68)
ESP32: SCL=22 SDA=21
see the picture

greetings
Sven

amg8833-m5stickc-pinout.JPG (2039kb)

Mark Fussell 4 years ago

Sven,

Not sure which changes you made in the code. Are you saying that you changed SCL =22 and SDA =21 in the MTCDevice.h file? Can you cut/paste you actual code changes please?

Thanks

Sven Bäuerle 4 years ago

Mark,
if you use M5Stack go to MTCDevice.h and set
SCL=26
SDA=0
MTCADRESS=0x69

if you use esp32 go to MTCDevice.h and set
SCL=22
SDA=21

If you cannot proceed, send me a photo of your hardware.

greetings
Sven