Description:

This sensor is from an 8×8 array of IR Thermal sensors. When connected to a microcontroller (or raspberry Pi), it returns an array of 64 individual infrared temperature values over I2C. It’s like those Unusual thermal cameras, but compact and simple enough for easy integration.

This part measures the temperature from 0 ° C to 80 ° C (32 ° F to 176 ° F) With an accuracy of + -2.5 ° C (4.5 ° F). He can detect a person from a distance of 7 m (23) feet. With a maximum frame rate of 10 Hz, it is ideal for creating your own human detector or mini thermal camera. We have the code to use this breakthrough on Arduino or compatible (the sensor binds more than I2C) or to the raspberry pi from the python. On Pi, with a little image processing help from the pythpy python library, we were able to interpolate the 8×8 Grid and get pretty good results!

The AMG8833 is the next generation of 8×8 thermal infrared sensors and offers better performance than the predecessor. The sensor only supports I2C, and has a configurable interrupt pin that can fire when any single pixel goes above or below the threshold that you set.

To be easy to use, we select and place it on a section board with a 3.3V regulator and a switching level. So, you can use it with any 3 V or 5 V microcontroller or computer.

Even better, adafruit has done all the hard work here, with code examples and support for software libraries, to get you up and running in a few lines of code! Read our guide for how to get started.