VL6180 distance sensor c source?

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Posted by bobgardner: Tue. Dec 20, 2016 - 09:24 PM
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Hello folks. I have one of the sparkfun VL6180 I2C distance sensor breakout boards, and I see there is an ino file that reads the chip and displays the distance to an object. Was wondering if anyone has used this gizmo, and has some c source? I have taken a stab at converting some of the cpp stuff to c and its a lot of work it seems. Thanks.

 

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Dec 20, 2016 - 09:34 PM
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You mean one of these:

 

SparkFun ToF Range Finder Breakout - VL6180

https://www.sparkfun.com/product...

 

SparkFun ToF Range Finder Sensor - VL6180

https://www.sparkfun.com/product...

 

bobgardner wrote:
I see there is an ino file ... Was wondering if anyone has ... some c source?

You do realise that .ino is really just C++ ?

 

So shouldn't be hard to convert to C - might even be as simple as just renaming it ...

 

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Posted by Kartman: Tue. Dec 20, 2016 - 10:51 PM
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I think ST have some code for their STM32 series. I just used the MBED code for my experiments with this device - but that is c++.

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Dec 20, 2016 - 11:16 PM (Reply to #3)
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Kartman wrote:
 but that is c++.

Which, again, is not necessarily hard to translate to C ...

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Posted by bobgardner: Wed. Dec 21, 2016 - 01:08 AM
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Cool. I'm ready to attempt to compile your submission of VL6180test.c Thanks in advance.

 

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Posted by Kartman: Thu. Dec 22, 2016 - 01:53 AM
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10 seconds of Googling found this:

http://www.st.com/content/ccc/re...

 

One of the lines says: "Set of documented C functions"f d

ocumented C functions 

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Posted by bobgardner: Thu. Dec 22, 2016 - 10:18 PM
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I figgerd it out! Not surprisingly, how to talk to the chip on twi was described in PrettyGoodDetail right in the datasheet. Here's the program

 

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File VL6180test.c

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Posted by valusoft: Fri. Dec 23, 2016 - 01:01 AM
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If I might ask Bob... what is the application that needs to measure such a short range so precisely?

 

ps... Just read the file header's "Arnott motorcycle ride height sensor"... what ever that is. Above or below cloud level?

 

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Posted by Paulvdh: Fri. Dec 30, 2016 - 12:28 AM
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I know it's already solved, but when searching for libraries for specific hardware github has become my first goto.

 

https://github.com/search?utf8=%...

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