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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Good News!

A project log for Raspberry Pi Spectrometer

The PySpectrometer is a Python (OpenCV and Tkinter) implementation of an optical spectrometer for the Raspberry Pi.

leswrightLesWright 10/29/2021 at 20:550 Comments

I ordered a Pi zero 2 W, and installed the software.

Due to limited RAM, some dependencies needed to be installed with : --no-cache-dir

For example: pip3 install pip install scipy --no-cache-dir

Other then that, I am happy to report the software is perfectly usable on the Pi Zero 2W!

It runs a little toasty. Running the software over x11vnc, at a room Temp of 22.3C, I was seeing temps of 62C after 5 minutes of running. A heastsink and/or fan is probably a good idea.

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