Lepton camera pdf#
Lepton camera full#
Lepton camera code#

The most important parameter is Vgs since the control signals are 3.3v based. Most of the n-channel MOSFET parameters are unimportant and a variety of devices may be used. To reduce power consumption when the system is off a n-channel MOSFET is used as a switch and to keep current from flowing into A7 when the system is off.

The battery voltage is sensed using another resistor divider feeding A7. Different diodes may be used but they should be low Vf schottky units (the diode I used has about 0.3v Vf). The BAT54 diode is used to isolate the Teensy from Vbatt when the button is pressed. It does this by seeing the higher voltage when the button is pressed. The resistor divider driving A6 is used to sense whether or not the button is being pressed.

Lepton camera code#

As soon as the Teensy starts executing code it drives D7 high which holds the enable high (the user has to hold the power button until D7 is high which is a few hundred mSec and indicated by the LCD clear screen). The enable is held low by the resistor divider until the button is pressed enabling power. I removed the 10 kohm pullup R2 from the Sparkfun board to reduce quiescent current. The main requirements are an active-high boost converter enable signal and very low quiescent current when the boost converter is disabled (so-as not to discharge the battery).

However I think one of their newer charger/boost converter boards (or something similar from another supplier) will work. The power circuitry is built around a now-obsolete Sparkfun PowerCell board. This allows the Reset button on the LCD shield to reset the Teensy. I also added a wire connected to the Teensy Reset pad on the bottom of the board and routed to the Arduino RST header pin. The VUSB power line was connected to the spare Arduino expansion pin and routed to the front board containing the charger via the header. That way the board may be charged via either the Teensy USB connector or the charger USB connector. I use VUSB as the input power to the charger and let the charger supply 5V that is fed back to the Teensy via its VIN to power it.

I cut the trace between VIN and VUSB on the back of the Teensy. A pair of 4.7 kohm pull-up resistors pulled to 3V3 is connected to the I2C signals. I also removed the 2-pin power input (J3) that pokes out of the back of the breakout. I brought the signal out to a pin plugged into the same header that the rest of the breakout board's pins connected to. I use it as an interrupt on the Teensy to trigger a set of transfers.

Lepton camera full#

This pin may be used to output a 105.3 Hz VSYNC signal that indicates the start of a segment transmission (a segment is 1/4 of a full frame of data and requires at least 60 164- or 244-byte SPI transfers). Pure Engineering provides a SMT pad on the back of their breakout for the Lepton's GPIO3 pin. A few modifications are made to various boards. The button initially enables power and then the Teensy drives D7 to hold power. It's controlled using a soft-power switch. A LiPo charger/boost converter supplies 5V power to the various boards (the Teensy 3.3 volt regulator drives the 3.3v rail). The additional circuitry is for power management and control buttons.

Lepton camera pdf#

Most connections between the Lepton module, LCD and Teensy are direct and documented in the image and included PDF schematic using the Arduino-style signal notation. I used an Arduino shield style breakout board to make it easy to connect the Teensy to the display and imaging module. The test platform hardware is pretty straightforward.