Integrating Thermal Camera with Crazyflie

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sean112
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Integrating Thermal Camera with Crazyflie

Post by sean112 »

Hello all,

We are currently thinking about integrating a thermal camera as a deck on CF2.1. The thermal camera we have bought is MLX90640. We were able to get it working on a raspberry pi.

I have also found this PR for AMG8833 https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-firmware/pull/386, but I cannot find any other information about it. Is there any documents for integrating a new sensor? Since I am not that familiar with hardware (I2C), any documents showing how to integrate it would be appreciated. Software wise, I think we just need some time to dig through other deck drivers to figure it out, but a link to some blogs or documents would still be appreciated deeply.

Sincerely,
Sean
kimberly
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Re: Integrating Thermal Camera with Crazyflie

Post by kimberly »

Hi!

We don't have really documentation about adding new sensors specifically, but a good place is perhaps our expansion deck page: https://www.bitcraze.io/documentation/s ... siondecks/. Here you can see which decks are already using the I2C and you can take inspiration from their drivers from the Crazyflie-firmware repo how to read i2c out. Then you can use the prototype deck to use those connections and power the sensor as well. Make sure to look at the differences of the VCC and the VCOM powersupply which fits with your sensor.

This might be a good place to start, but for the rest some investigations from your part would be necessary, but please let us know if you have some specific questions in the future.
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