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Resolved! X-NUCLEO-53L7A1 and Nucleo-F429ZI

Hello everyone,I just received my X-Nucleo-53L7A1 board and I'm trying to get it working with my Nucleo-F429ZI. In CubeMX,I've selected my board and the appropriate software pack. For the pin configuration, I followed the example provided for the Nuc...

Miickey by Associate II
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Resolved! TOF VL53L1 autonomous mode with ambient light

Hello,We are using the VL53L1 sensor in autonomous mode to range data, mostly indoors but sometimes outdoor.Following the Table 3 in UM2133, we use the short distance mode in order to have better ambient light immunity when outdoors.However, in the A...

abdmou by Associate
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VL53LCX Gesture Recognition for Linux

I have used the VL53LCX Linux driver to operate the ToF sensor on the IMX8M Nano board, and the Linux driver is functioning correctly. However, I am encountering issues with implementing gesture recognition functionality. I have used the gesture reco...

VL6180 part to part variation

Hi all,         What is the part to part variation of ST VL6180 ToF sensor? During testing, we keep the sensor at a distance of 50mm from a retro reflector tape. In a batch of 50 sensors, the readout was from ~ 37 mm to  ~51 mm (expected readout is 5...

Syam by Associate II
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Resolved! Adding multiple vl53l0x sensors

Hi allI have successfully implemented a single vl53l0x sensor, but wish to add more. I found the "AN4846 Application note Using multiple VL53L0X in a single design" documentation:https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/technical/document/application_...

ADP1114 by Associate II
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Resolved! How to filter multitarget readings on ToF sensor

Hello, We've been developing a tank level monitoring system using these sensors: VL53L4CD (18° FoV)VL53L3CX (25° FoV, multitarget)VL53L4CX (18° FoV, multiobject, multitarget) First question is the definitions and distinctions between the terms multiz...

karlacha by Associate II
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VL53L8CX : firmware loading over SPI fails with timeout

Hello,I'm currently using VL53L8CX with an STM32U535 on a custom PCB.I'm using X-CUBE-TOF1 package.I'm able to identify the sensor with SPI at 2MHz using vl53l8cx_is_alive function.I was able to successfully init and use VL53L8 on U-585I-IOT02A dev b...

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josselin by Associate II
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