THERMAL CAMERA / ESP32 APPLICATION
Lepton Thermal Camera
ESP32-S3 FLIR Lepton firmware with Arduino HAL and PlatformIO
About this project
About this project
A driver layer for FLIR Lepton thermal cameras on the Arduino HAL, tested with a Lepton 3.5 and an ESP32-S3 on a custom board. The API is small: construct with I2C and SPI buses plus chip-select and reset pins, poll `isReady()`, then call `readVoSpi()` into a 160×120×2 buffer. Two examples ship with PlatformIO, a webserver that streams MJPEG or single frames in greyscale or colourised RGB888 using JPEGENC, and a serial console that prints each pixel as one digit. VoSPI is timing-sensitive, so the driver wants high priority under an RTOS; in some cases the camera never yields valid data and power-cycling does not help. Only Lepton 3.5 has been tested.
From the README
From the README
- Build
- All examples should build right out of the box with PlatformIO
- Limit
- VoSPI is a timing-sensitive protocol
- Limit
- Only tested with Lepton 3.5
- Display
- streaming MJPEG, in greyscale or RGB888 (colorized) mode
Hardware
Boards: ESP32-S3
ESP32-S3. Verify the exact board revision, wiring and power requirements in the upstream build guide.
Media credit & rights
Upstream project media · rights remain with its owner · Credit: ducky64
Screenshots from the upstream README. Code and firmware were not executed. License notices are included.
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