VL53L5

A lightweight, header-only Arduino library for ST Microelectronics VL53L5 multizone Time-of-Flight ranging camera (get it here!) This library is designed to simplify the use of the sensor by helping you avoid illegal configurations; e.g., specifying an integration constant in continuous mode, or specifying too high a sampling frequency at a given resolution.

Quickstart

1. Connect I²C in the usual way (SCL, SDA, 3.3V, GND)

2. Connect INT and LPN to digital pins on your board, making sure the pin numbers agree with the pin numbers specified in the Basic test sketch.

3. Flash the Basic test sketch onto your board.

4. After a few seconds you should see the LED turn on solid.

5. A few seconds after that, the LED should start blinking.

6. Open the serial monitor to observer the rangefinder readings.

Supported platforms

I have tested this library on the following platforms:

• Ladybug STM32L432 Development Board

• Teensy 3.2 Develeopment Board

• Teensy 4.0 Develeopment Board

• TinyPICO ESP32 Develeopment Board

Related projects

• SparkFun VL53L5CX Arduino Library

• stm32duino VL53L5CX

Known issues

Compiling on ESP32 with warnings set to More or All, you may get a memory warning that is treated as an error. Although ST claims to have fixed this problem, I was unable to get their code working on my ESP32. So I have opted to include the older code and set warnings to Default.