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Resolved! Unable to communicate with VL53L8CX over SPI

Hi all,I'm trying to get the VL53L8CX ToF sensor working for a university project, this is my first time using it. I made a little breakout PCB for it and soldered it, measured resistance between al neighbouring pins, none of them were shorts or open...

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Ce3c by Associate II
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X NUCLEO 53L7A1 with I2C COMMUNICATION

Edit by ST Moderator: This post has been translated from French to comply with the ST Community Terms and Conditions (§10.2). Hello to the ST communityI have a problem with my X NUCLEO 53L7A1. I want to use it with a NUCLEO F401RE for intelligent pre...

Freedy by Associate II
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Resolved! VL53L3 TOF Sensor Ranging Issues

Hello ST team, I have established communication with the TOF while using the Full library(The example file used is STSW-IMG015 VL53L3CX_BareDriver_1.2.10.) of VL53L3, and I successfully read the ID (which should prove that my I2C communication is nor...

VL53L7CX MTBF

Hi There, Do you have MTBF number for VL53L7CX?   Best regards, Peter

PSO by Associate
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How to decode serial data from VL53L8CH?

Hello,I am trying to get histograms off of the VL53L8CH sensor. I have the sensor hooked up to an F401 and I'm using the official driver from here: https://www.st.com/en/embedded-software/stsw-img043.html.When I start ranging with the sensor through ...

Resolved! Setting up X-NUCLEO-53L5A1

Hi, I have X_NUCLEO-53L5A1 expansion board. I connected this board to ESP8266 inorder to use the VL53L5CX sensor. But the sensor is not being detected.#include <Wire.h> void setup() { Serial.begin(115200); Wire.begin(4, 5); // GPIO4 (SDA), GPIO...

Resolved! Can't Read Data from VL53L8CX using STM32

Hallo Everyone,I am currently trying to retrieve data from a VL53L8CX time-of-flight distance sensor using a NUCLEO-F401RE and an X-NUCLEO-53L8A1 on STM32CubeIDE with the VL53L8CX API. However, I am struggling to get it working and have no idea what ...

gil_B by Associate II
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Resolved! Detection thresholds in VL53L8CX

Hi Team,We would like to know how the detection threshold works . There will be 16 detection threshold for 16 blocks (4x4 sensor) . Will the interrupt be fired when any one of the threshold is met or all the 16 blocks detection threshold is met ?Plea...

Vbala.1 by Associate II
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Resolved! VL53L4CD configuration and minimum distance reading

Hi to all.I'm trying the VL53L4CD nucleo expansion board. My goal is to use this ToF sensor to detect a very small change in  distace, starting from about 5 mm.The idea is use this VL53L4CD  sensor to detect if the distace become greater than 5mm. (5...

TheRaprus by Associate III
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