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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

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 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.

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!