Imaging (sensors)

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SATEL-VL53L8 level conversion

Hi everybody,I have purchased SATEL-VL53L8 package containing 2 breakout boards with VL53L8 ToF ranging sensor, and I encountered a peculiar hardware issue. A breakout board has been connected to an ESP32 dev board (3.3V logic level). I have been try...

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milukic by Associate II
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Resolved! VL53L8CH GUI

Hello,I am interested in the ToF-Sensor VL53L8CH to get access to the histogram data. Is there any Evaluation-GUI to easily try out this sensor and to see the histogram data, similar to the GUI for the VL53L8CX (STSW-IMG041 - VL53L8CX Demo GUI)?Thank...

PhKE by Associate
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Resolved! VL53L0X: How to narrow the FOV

Greetings Team,Have a question (that may not be so quick). Currently working on a project where I need to detect a tube's length, using the VL53L0X, from ~30 to 200mm. The problem is that the inside dimensions of the tube are 20x11mm, quite tight. I'...

JOsbo.1 by Associate
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Resolved! How to properly drive the VL53L0X into Sleep mode?

The datasheet mentions putting the sensor into sleep by driving XSHUT low. measuring the power consumption shows that the power is consumed more when I connect XSHUT even when I drive it low by 200 microAmp. The XSHUT is normally pulled-up on the bre...

AElgh by Associate III
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gesture library in STSW-IMG035

Hello! I am an undergraduate student interested in gesture recognition based on ToF ranging sensors. How to use the gesture library to train a model for the STM32CubeMX project?Is there a tutorial? If possible, could you provide the complete project ...

VL53L3CX with Atmega328pb Xplained Mini

Hi,I am using the VL53L3CX distance sensor for a project and I am wondering if it's possible to create my own library functions. The MCU I am using is the ATmega328PB XPlained Mini from Microchip, which only has 32KB of flash memory. The API library ...

castor by Associate
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Resolved! Set permanent I2C address to TOF

Hello,I have already use VL53L0X sensor provided by AZ-Delivery.My main problem is that I2C address can be changed but NOT permanently.I am looking to "Adafruit VL53L4CX Time of Flight Sensor". But I don't want to discover the same problem, that is I...

Resolved! VL53L4CX temperature update

Hi,I was wondering if someone can help me with temperature update on the VL53L4CX.According to UM2931  that describes the temperature update in paragraph 3.5 there is a dedicated function named VL53L4CD_Start_Temperature_Update() and can be used when...

Gabor23 by Associate II
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