I did this primarily to make it easy to program a gCore for those people who are building tCams but it can also be used to load the most current tCamMini firmware as well. I wrote a simple utility program that runs on 64-bit Linux x86, OS X or Windows to make it easy to load the most recent firmware (downloaded from my website) for either tCam (gCore hardware) or tCam-Mini/tCam-POE. So if you have a tCam-Mini or are building a tCam, I hope you'll consider playing with this app. I have helped him test the app and given advice and suggestions and he is finally ready for other people to start testing. It was much more effort than he originally imagined but to my amazement, he stuck with it in his spare time. It was his way to relearn Android development and he enjoyed playing with the tCam cameras. Last summer a software developer I had been working with on another project, Jim T, kindly offered to write an Android app. Unfortunately I don't have the time - and perhaps the high-level language expertise - to learn native Android app development. Xojo's Android effort is moving at a snail's pace and sadly I don't imagine that I can start that port anytime soon. If you've ready back you might see that I originally wanted to use Xojo to take the iOS app I developed last year and release a version for Android when Xojo finally supported sockets on Android. People have asked for an Android App since tCam-Mini was first released and I don't blame them. Other than that please submit feedback about other issues or features. The developer knows about this and plans to rewrite the socket handling code to deal with this. The app is pretty full featured however it has a known issue when streaming. When the developer is ready he or I will notify you when it's ready to download and include instructions how to do that and how to provide feedback. If you're interested please reach out to me with that, either in a message here on hackaday.io, or to my personal email address which you can find at my website or via my github page. I ended up starting with a Teensy 3.2 based prototype with a Lepton breakout board, before moving on the Raspberry Pi, then the exciting world of PRUs in the Beaglebone SBCs before finally settling on the ESP32 for my final design (actually designs).Įdit - The developer decided getting the app into the Play Store alpha program was too complex and will be providing an APK for download.Īn Android app capable of displaying images from the tCam cameras is ready for some alpha testing. ![]() Both Max and Damien were very gracious when I sent them various questions when I was getting going. Max Ritter's DIY Thermocam and Damien Walsh's Leptonic are really well done and instructive. Pure Engineering and Group Gets are to be commended for making these devices available to makers. I read about a lot of other great projects online to get going. This is the story of my thermal imaging camera journey. However it soon became obvious that I'd need a simpler platform to learn how to use the Lepton module when I started reading the documentation and playing with the various demo codebases. I am willing to get rid of them for free or the cost of shipping.My original long-term goal was to create a capable thermal imaging camera using the Beaglebone Black and a 7" LCD cape as the platform matching some of the features of high end commercial products. All someone would need is the module, regulators, and passives to assemble them (~$190 from Digikey). I do not plan on purchasing another module and so I have two extra PCBs and sockets to go with them. Next, I plan on connecting the board to an A+ Raspberry Pi and seeing if I can get any images out of it using Pure Engineering's software. I powered the board with a 3.3 V source and have good power at each regulator and no power where it shouldn't be. The blob shorted the MOSI and MISO pins to ground but I seem to have been able to remove it all. I accidentally dropped a blob of soldered onto the socket when I was soldering the header on and so I had to get creative with some wick to get the shorts out from underneath the socket. I soldered up one of them and have tested for shorts. I guess I shouldn't have rushed and tried to mimic the Pure Engineering breakout so closely. ![]() ![]() The correct order is MOSI MISO CLK CS GND VIN SDA SCL. However, I noticed I mislabeled the SPI pins. Well I got the boards back from OSHPark and they look good.
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