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Joined: 18/10/2016
Location: AustraliaPosts: 905
| Posted: 10:13pm 20 Jan 2022 |
G'day all,
This is only a quick report as I'm rushing to get out of town for a few days BUT!
My device arrived and it works a treat!
It is labelled as a "VL53L-400" and described as a "WT53D"
There are links to WitMotion's PC software or connections to the Picomite for either I2C or Serial.
It took me 10 minutes to get the serial working (at 115200 baud).
In that mode it just spits out readings continuously. They seem about right but I havnt confirmed their accuracy yet.
My next steps are to send it to an HC12 every x seconds and to test it over water.
More info in a day or three but I'll try to answer questions in the meantime.
(I had wasted a heap of time unsuccessfully trying to get Python to do serial or to get MMBasic to talk to my original VL53L1X - I'm happy with my recent purchase).
Cheers,
Andrew