Crowdfunding platform GroupGets has launched a marketing campaign of its personal, aiming to seek out consumers for a low-cost hackable thermal digicam with USB Sort-C connectivity: the FLIR Lepton FS-based PureThermal 3.
“The motivation for the brand new [thermal camera] design was primarily to handle part shortages, however we took it as a chance to make a brand new kind issue,” explains Griffin Covert, GroupGets’ head engineer, of the corporate’s newest in own-brand units. “My private favourite a part of the brand new design is the JTAG breakout alongside the castellated edge on the prime. This together with a customized jig, which can even quickly be obtainable for buy, permits for extra fast flashing on the fab in comparison with DFU over USB.”
GroupGets has launched its third-generation thermal imaging board, the PureThermal 3 with FLIR Lepton FS. (📷: GroupGets)
Because the identify implies, the PureThermal 3 is GroupGets’ third-general thermal imager: the unique launched in October 2015, with the corporate working a complete of 30 campaigns for numerous fashions within the household over the yr since. Like its predecessors, the PureThermal 3 is constructed round a FLIR Lepton thermal imaging module — this time the low-cost Lepton FS, which is much less delicate than its stablemates and may have as much as three % of its pixels non-operable however that also provides a 160×120 thermal decision.
GroupGets’ service for the Letpton FS features a USB Sort-C connector for energy and knowledge, exposing the digicam as a webcam gadget to a USB host, consists of an STMicroelectronics STM32F412CG microcontroller with three general-purpose enter/outout (GPIO) pins uncovered for exterior {hardware}, a “partially mikroBUS-compatible breakout pin configuration,” SPI entry to the Lepton module, and a castellated connector on the prime for the Tag-Join EC-10-IDC programming device.
The Lepton FS module provides a 160×120 decision, however could have as much as three % of its pixels non-functional. (📷: GroupGets)
The corporate has priced the brand new board at $199.99 plus transport, and has launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign searching for simply 10 consumers at the least. The marketing campaign closes on September twenty second, with the lead time on {hardware} claimed at simply seven days.
Those that want greater sensitivity, a broader vary, or fewer useless pixels, in the meantime, can choose to improve to FLIR’s Lepton 3.5 thermal imaging module for a further $50.
