Panasonic Grid-EYE (AMG88xx) Shields

Overview

The Panasonic AMG88XX is an 8x8 (64) pixel infrared array sensor available only in a SMD design. Here are two sources for easily working with this sensor:

Current supported shields

Name

Shield Designation

AMG88xx Evaluation Kit

amg88xx_eval_kit

Requirements AMG88xx Evaluation Kit

On the AMG88xx Evaluation Kit, all jumpers except the J11 and J14 must be removed. This shield can only be used with a board that provides a configuration for Arduino connectors and defines node aliases for I2C and GPIO interfaces (see Shields for more details).

Pins Assignment of the AMG88xx Evaluation Kit Shield

Shield Connector Pin

Function

D6

INT

AMG88xx INT Pin

D14

I2C SDA

AMG88xx SDA Pin

D15

I2C SCL

AMG88xx SCL Pin

The same shield designation can also be used with breakout boards like Adafruit AMG8833 8x8 Thermal Camera Sensor 2. The wires should be connected according to the table above.

Programming

Correct shield designation (see the table above) for your shield must be entered when you invoke west build. For example:

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b nrf52840dk_nrf52840 samples/sensor/amg88xx -- -DSHIELD=amg88xx_eval_kit

References

1

https://eu.industrial.panasonic.com/grideye-evalkit

2(1,2)

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-amg8833-8x8-thermal-camera-sensor/overview