Melexis90640 Driver RPi3

This driver was made for Melexis90640 specifically for raspberry pi 3 in order to use it first install the BCM2835:

wget http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-1.55.tar.gz
tar xvfz bcm2835-1.55.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

In order to detect if you have connected the Mlx90640 correctly install sudo apt-get install i2c-tools then run the command i2cdetect -y 0 if error then run i2cdetect -y 1 it should be showing this output:

00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- 33 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Make sure you have cmake installed, in case of issues please : sudo apt-get install cmake

Build:

After you have verified that melexis90640 connected correctly, now you can compile the driver code:

cmake .
make

Run:

sudo ./MLX90640 10

the 10 in this command represent the timespan between each image in seconds.