For more information on the new Arduino Nano thermal imaging camera jump over to the EEVBlog website for details and the Arduino code required to make your very own. Watch this video on YouTube.

The Arduino does all the communications and fools the game into thinking it is the companion printer. However, it simply streams the data out and a Javascript decoder handles the actual decoding.

Anyone searching for an Arduino project to keep them busy this weekend may be interested in a new motion activated wildlife camera constructed using the Adafruit Feather M0 development board.