It's not a camera
Al Johnson
openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Fri Feb 4 15:19:55 CET 2011
On Friday 04 February 2011, Benjamin Deering wrote:
> http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=album&id=26
>
> After attempting to use a bmp085 as a temperature sensor for my skiwax
> program (http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/wax/) and not getting good
> results (at least partially due to thermal leakage through the i2c
> wires), I added a mlx90614 to my freerunner. It is an infrared
> thermometer with a temperature range of -70C to 380C. It reacts quickly
> to changes in temperature and sort of fits in the freerunner case.
> Installation is similar to the Freerunner Navigation Board install.
> Christoph Mair has written a kernel module for it. The module is on
> gitorious, but is not yet available upstream.
Nice work!
> There is a similar part called a mlx90615 which is much smaller, but
> also has a smaller temperature range. It may not work with the current
> kernel module, but could probably work with small changes.
The temperature range is still -40C to 115C so probably good enough for many
uses.
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