It's not a camera

[Al Johnson]

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.