Unfortunately after soldering the Teensy to a Sparkfun breakout board I stressed the processor BGA package and made the board unreliable. I decided to follow Max's lead and build a test platform using a Teensy 3.5 that I had (selected for the multiple SPI interfaces and copious RAM). Both Max and Damien were very gracious when I sent them various questions. Damien Walsh's Leptonic is also really well done and works with the Lepton 3.5 as well. He has done a great job and I pored over his code. Max Ritter's DIY Thermocam is probably the most mature and well known. Pure Engineering is to be commended for making these devices available to makers and provides a wealth of code examples, many designed to work with the previous Lepton models. There are a lot of other great projects online to help get going with the FLIR sensors.
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Although the device has good default settings I found enabling some features wasn't well documented and the video SPI interface (VoSPI) challenging to implement due to its real-time constraints. It is a very capable device with a moderately complex interface, both firmware and hardware.
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However it soon became obvious that I'd need a simpler platform to learn how to use the Lepton module when I started reading the documentation and playing with the various demo codebases.
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The long-term goal is to create a capable thermal imaging camera using the Beaglebone Black and a 7" LCD cape as the platform matching some of the features of high end commercial products.