You have to carefully look at [upir’s] Arduino thermal camera project because it intersperses pictures of what you expect an 8×8 sensor will produce with images produced by a much better camera.

Description: Using an Arduino or a micro controller we can generate cool looking patterns with an led strip with addressable LEDs. In this case I'm using an Arduino uno (clone board) and a strip of ...

The new board is called Giga R1 WiFi, and has an Arm Cortex-M7 running at 480MHz and M4 at 240MHz, with two additional connectors for the additional IO, one of which can handle a camera.