# MLX90640 Sensor Unable to Read

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/mlx90640-sensor-unable-to-read/68031>\
**Category:** Imaging\
**Created:** [February 10, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/mlx90640-sensor-unable-to-read/68031 "2026-02-10T20:48:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![NathanBrewer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e480ec/32.png) [@NathanBrewer](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/NathanBrewer)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2026, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/mlx90640-sensor-unable-to-read/68031/1 "2026-02-10T20:48:11Z")

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I recently purchased an MLX90640 Thermal Camera Breakout. The sensor is detected on I2C (0x33), but the EEPROM reports multiple faulty pixels (broken=1, outlier=5 with adjacent outliers). With the official driver this prevents initialization, and bypassing the check causes math-domain errors every frame, so the sensor cannot produce valid temperature data.

I am using an Adafruit Bluefruit Circuit Playground for this, and I downloaded the official libraries for this sensor. I am currently completely unable to use it, and I am just trying to find out of there is anything I can do to fix it or if I just need it replaced.

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**Author:** ![TS-Russell](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/sparkfun/user_avatar/community.sparkfun.com/ts-russell/32/6092_2.png) [@TS-Russell](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/TS-Russell)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 2:41am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/mlx90640-sensor-unable-to-read/68031/2 "2026-02-11T02:41:54Z")

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How is it connected? Are things soldered?