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FLIR Lepton Pocket Thermal Camera Reference Design
The FLIR Lepton Pocket Demo Camera is a self-contained handheld thermal imager designed by Pure Engineering. It pairs an Atmel SAMD21G18A 32-bit Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller (Arduino Zero architecture) with a 96x64 color OLED display, a 120 mAh LiPo battery, and a FLIR Lepton LWIR camera core.
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Architecture & Technical Specifications
Hardware Architecture & Features
- Atmel SAMD21G18A Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller at 48 MHz with native USB bootloader.
- 0.95-inch 96x64 16-bit color SSD1331 OLED display rendering live thermal frames at 9 Hz.
- Integrated 120 mAh rechargeable lithium-polymer battery (35 to 45 minutes continuous runtime) and USB charger.
- Compact 3D-printable enclosure (42 x 28 x 19 mm, 24 g total mass) with slide power switch and palette button.
Firmware, Software & Integration
- Programmed through the Arduino IDE using the Arduino Zero native USB port and open-source Lepton libraries.
- Single pushbutton cycles through color palettes or triggers manual flat-field correction (FFC).
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