Over this past weekend I attempted connecting the AMG8833 IR thermal sensor (being used for this experiment) to another Raspberry Pi computer. This time using a RPi Zero 2 W unit with pre-soldered GPIO header pins.

As a side note, there were over 150 updates needing to be installed upon first starting up the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W SBC. Which were completed in a surprisingly short period of time via the CLI.

Once prepared to tinker, I connected jumper cables to header pins on the thermal camera and then on the Raspberry Pi computer. I next booted the Zero 2 W SBC and ran a simple script to detect hardware interactivity. Unfortunately there was no signal received from the AMG8833 IR thermal camera by the second RPi computer.

After having two Raspberry Pi computers fail to ping the AMG8833 IR thermal sensor, I assume the problem is the soldering job I did with/on the breakout board's header pins. Which (in my mind) validates the "start over strategy" I am now taking; having recently ordered another new AMG8833 thermal camera.

I am pleased to have attempted connecting the AMG8833 IR thermal sensor to a second computer. Because it helps me isolate where mistakes were made.