drkdhong/flirpicam

An embedded linux flir lepton camera design package

Flir Pi Cam

This is an open source design for a FLiR thermal camera built on the raspberry Pi.

Features

• Flir Lepton module
• Raspberry Pi 2
• 7 inch touchscreen
• ~1 hour battery life
• Rechargeable
• Battery monitoring into linux
• Button interface for capturing screenshots, mounting and unmounting usb
• Buttons can trigger custom shell scripts which can be edited from the OS

Linux software

• Raspbian
• Flir Video monitor demo for the Lepton module
• Custom qt4 application for system monitor
• scrot screen capture

Extra Linux software

• capture for capturing usb video streams
• ffmpeg for compression

System Firmware

• Operates as class compliant keyboard for some functions (login screepting). TODO: auto login
• Operates as USB serial TTY for running screen capture/custom scripts
• Button hold features implemented, can be used for alternate scripts of sudoing the scripts

System Hardware

• 2 powercells
• 2 lipo batteries
• Physical battery disconnect switch
• MCU connected by USB
• Diode or-ing of power rails, priority to source
• 4 buttons
• 1 LED
• analog channels calibrated by TLV431 bandgap ref
• Measures battery voltages and system rail

This is released under the Creative Commons ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

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