FireTIRS

Dr. James Thompson from the University of Texas contacted me after reading about my personal Lepton-based thermal imaging cameras. He had need for a multi-spectral long-wave infrared camera that could be carried aloft under a drone for some spectral analysis. We ended up using the networked version of tCam to build a small sensor module, replicated six times on board with a Raspberry Pi 4 Compute Module and long-distance IP radio. The board can run from 8-24 volts and provides a complete set of peripheral interfaces for him to write software with it sitting on his desk. Internally I used a ethernet hub IC and logic-level network connections between the CM and thermal imaging modules. All hardware worked on the first revision.

My tCam-Eth design was shrunk (and magnetics removed) to become tCam-Eth.