On Friday 04 February 2011, Benjamin Deering wrote: > http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/index.php?level=album&id=26 > > After attempting to use a bmp085 as a temperature sensor for my skiwax > program (http://jeepingben.homelinux.net/wax/) and not getting good > results (at least partially due to thermal leakage through the i2c > wires), I added a mlx90614 to my freerunner. It is an infrared > thermometer with a temperature range of -70C to 380C. It reacts quickly > to changes in temperature and sort of fits in the freerunner case. > Installation is similar to the Freerunner Navigation Board install. > Christoph Mair has written a kernel module for it. The module is on > gitorious, but is not yet available upstream.
Nice work! > There is a similar part called a mlx90615 which is much smaller, but > also has a smaller temperature range. It may not work with the current > kernel module, but could probably work with small changes. The temperature range is still -40C to 115C so probably good enough for many uses. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community