


TCam-Mini Thermal Imaging Module in action Infrared Radiometry and Lepton 3.5įlir Lepton 3.5 is a radiometric capable Long-Wave Infrared (LWIR) camera module from the Lepton series. You can buy tCam-Mini and camera modules from GroupGets store. You have to buy the camera module separately when you buy the tCam-Mini. The tCam-Mini is a carrier and processor board that has a compatible socket for Lepton 3.5. It has a form-factor and mechanical interface to be easily installed onto a side-contact socket. Lepton 3.5 has 19,200 (160×120) pixels that can capture IR radiation in the temperature equivalent range of -10˚ to +400˚C. The firmware is written using ESP-IDF and can be flashed to the module via USB. The project is completely open source and the hardware and software files can be downloaded from Dan’s GitHub repository. As the name suggests, tCam-Mini is a smaller subset of the fully featured design called tCam which is currently under development.

The project was successfully funded and the campaign ended on 07 April 2021. tCam-Mini was crowd funded and launched through Hackster Launch programme by Hackster.io and GroupGets. The fully open source project is based on Espressif’s ESP32 Wi-Fi module and FLIR‘s thermal imaging camera module Lepton 3.5. TCam-Mini is a wireless thermal imaging camera designed by Dan Julio from Colorado, USA.
