[SOLVED] VL53L0X "home made" Z-ranger

[grifo7]

Hi!

So I noticed 2 days ago there's a new deck, the Z-ranger deck. Before it was released I was trying to do something similar. To do so, I ordered a bunch of these boards with the same distance sensor: https://www.pololu.com/product/2490. But I never got to actually do something with them.

Now I was wondering if it was possible to use those boards with the Z-ranger drivers, since I already bought them. The layout (https://www.pololu.com/product/2490#lig ... ture0J7229) is a little bit different from the Z-ranger deck but I believe that's because of the built-in Voltage Regulator, no? Do you think it would be possible and if yes, do I need to change much the already made drivers?

Thank you
Grifo

[tobias]

Sure it will work just fine. Just hook it up the same way the Z-ranger deck is wired and force the deck driver with

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CFLAGS += -DDECK_FORCE=bcZRanger

in your config.mk file and rebuild the FW.

As you have many of them maybe you can use some for obstacle avoidance as well . That requires some coding though and hooking up each vl53 XSHUT signal so you can configure the i2c address one after the other.

[grifo7]

Hello tobias!

Thank you for your answer

I did what you said and it worked I now get the height data on the BitCraze client!

That was exactly my plan when I bought them. I bought 6, 2 for each axis except the z axis (only facing down) and a spare one. I'll try to keep you posted with my results!