Adafruit 1296 Contactless Infrared Thermopile Sensor Breakout I2C

The Adafruit Contactless Infrared Thermopile Sensor Breakout is unusual in that it uses a thermopile which senses infra-red radiation at a distance in order to measure temperature. It has an almost 180° field of view and measures the average temperature across that view. In order to focus in on a specific target the sensor has to be close enough that the object occupies a significant portion of its field of view. Please refer to the datasheet and manual for details. It's possible to have up to 8 x thermopile sensors on one I2C bus.

Supplied as a fully assembled and tested infrared sensor board plus a strip of 0.1in. header pins for you to solder on as required. Adafruit provide a free library and example code to help get you started. It should be possible to port the code to any microcontroller which supports I2C to take advantage of Adafruit's maths.

• Contactless temperature measurement
• 2 x mounting holes
• Dimensions: 20mm x 20mm (0.8 x 0.8in)
• Adafruit part no.: 1296

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