seeed-studio / grove-ranging-sensor-vl53l0x

Grove Ranging sensor VL53L0X-World’s smallest Time-of-Flight ranging and gesture detection sensor

Grove Ranging sensor VL53L0X

--World’s smallest Time-of-Flight ranging and gesture detection sensor

Introduction:

The VL53L0X is a new generation Time-of-Flight(ToF) laser-ranging module housed in the smallest package on the market today,providing accurate distance measurement whatever the target reflectances unlike conventional technologies.

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Usage:

Download all the source files and open one of example,compile,upload,and running.Open the corresponding Serial Port to watch the result.

Notice:

Not recommended for use under bright sun light. It will affects the accuracy of infrared. The range of measurement:10~2000mm(It is recommended to be within 1 meter in normal mode),further more,It has different performance when measure different color of object.Refer to doc/vl53l0x-datasheet.pdf to get more detail. This module supports:

• single ranging mode:Perform measurement once when calling the measurement function.
• continuous ranging mode:Perform measurement continuous with out interval time when calling the measurement function.
• high speed ranging mode : Reduce measurement time.
• high accuracy mode :Higher accuracy.but it will costs much more time.
• long distance mode :Longer measurement distance.

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reference:

Software implementation flow:refer to doc/software-flow.pdf
Datasheet:refer to doc/vl53l0x-datasheet.pdf

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This software is written by downey for seeed studio
Email:[email protected] and is licensed under The MIT License. Check License.txt for more information.

Contributing to this software is warmly welcomed. You can do this basically by
forking, committing modifications and then pulling requests (follow the links above
for operating guide). Adding change log and your contact into file header is encouraged.
Thanks for your contribution.

Seeed Studio is an open hardware facilitation company based in Shenzhen, China.
Benefiting from local manufacture power and convenient global logistic system,
we integrate resources to serve new era of innovation. Seeed also works with
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grove-ranging-sensor-vl53l0x's Issues

Multiple Device example

Howdy! Love this library - thank you!!

I was wondering if you had any support for multiple devices? Specifically I am looking to use the long distance ranging you have with (2) VL53L0X.

I've seen the adafruit library that has a dual example, but no long range support: (https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_VL53L0X/tree/dd6de8307d5fb2fb65430b13ebbdc99b06a481c4/examples/vl53l0x_dual)

Any chance you could implement this?

Sincerely,
Mike

Not working with a seeeduino lorawan board

I tried to make the Time of Flight grove sensor work with a Seeeduino LoRaWAN board without success.
I tried various samples and none works. The code never comes back from a VL53L0X.Pefrom….. call.

For example in the single_ranging.ino it arrives until this line “Status=VL53L0X.PerformSingleRangingMeasurement(&RangingMeasurementData);” and never comes back.

high_speed_ranging.ino

What are the absolute minimum requirements to make to code run (the fastest)?

I am hoping to control a motor with the same Seeeduino, if possible. (Probably not a good idea to do it on the same chip.)

Adding more comments/notes to the code would really help.

Thank you.

Add to Arduino library manager

I've been searching for this in the Arduino library manager, and can't find it. Can you raise the relevant pull request to add this please.

Instructions are here: https://github.com/arduino/library-registry#readme

Let me know if you are happy for me to do this.

error: call of overloaded 'abs(FixPoint1616_t)' is ambiguous

When compiling for XIAO ESP32C, I am getting below compilation error

~/Documents/Arduino/libraries/Grove-Ranging-sensor-VL53L0X/src/core/src/vl53l0x_api_core.cpp:1903:55: error: call of overloaded 'abs(FixPoint1616_t)' is ambiguous