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There seems to be no limit to what manufacturers can create with Raspberry Pi. The flexibility offered by GPIO adds a world of options when it comes to accessories and adding modules. Today we have a great example to share that explores the depth of this alignment in form sensor package Compiled by maker and developer Philip Gutjahr.
According to Gutjahr, this device is a sensor array that can be used to collect a wide range of information including depth measurements, temperature, and even RGB data. It relies on a few sensors connected to the Raspberry Pi 5, and is also equipped with Raspberry Pi Pico To assist with thermal camera processing.
Gutjahr did not specify exactly what the Sensorpack was developed for beyond experimentation. He intended to use the sensors together to create a “color point cloud” (typically used for 3D mapping) along with “joint binary zoom” (used to improve the resolution of low-resolution images) to build on the accuracy of thermal and thermal measurements. Depth sensor data with RGB sensor information used as a reference point.
The main board running the project is A Raspberry Pi 5. It is connected to an Arducam ToF camera and an Arducam IMX519 16MP module and uses a Pimoroni MLX90640 thermal camera with a Raspberry Pi Pico to complete the sensor array. Everything is housed inside a custom case designed by Gutjhar using 3DS Max and printed using a Prusa Slicer.
All software for the project is intended to be open source. As such, you can explore what has been created so far in github Gutjar invites all interested parties to contribute if they wish. This is a good place to check back for updates as they have plans to update the project in the future.
If you want to take a closer look at this Raspberry Pi projectyou can check the project page on which it was shared Reddit.
