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Re:DIY-Thermocam: The Affordable and Easy-to-Build Thermal C... by joshvm on Sunday May 07, 2023 @12:34PM (#35853137)
If you want a UVC setup then the purethermal carrier is the route to go.

You buy FLIR because they're well made, reliable products. Same reason people spend the money on Fluke. I'm not sure you can necessarily say the support is better for consumers because they mostly cater to OEMs, but the camera cores are (mostly) very well documented and software support is good.

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Re:DIY-Thermocam: The Affordable and Easy-to-Build Thermal C... by giantg2 on Sunday May 07, 2023 @02:23PM (#35854105)
"the camera cores are (mostly) very well documented and software support is good."

I have seen some good documents, but they are mostly tailored to OEMs as well. It also depends on what you want to do. I've been trying to get a lepton streaming video to a TFT screen using an ESP32. Resources are scares. If you hit a problem, you're basically on your own.

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Re:DIY-Thermocam: The Affordable and Easy-to-Build Thermal C... by joshvm on Monday May 08, 2023 @01:35PM (#35864500)
Hmm from my experience the Software IDD is pretty good, but ultimately it's not designed as a consumer part. (I am the author of flirpy which is aimed at more end user applications but I've not added low level support for the Lepton yet)
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