• ST TOF register map? (VL53L0x)

    From Crash Gordon@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jun 7 11:59:37 2024
    I'm trying to work up a project using these neat laser TOF sensors from
    ST, however none of the documentation I have found discusses the actual register map, or how the sensor is (directly) accessed. All of ST's
    docs refer to their library, which you link into your code.

    This would be wonderful if I wasn't trying to do this using the absolute cheapest uC I can find; I need to know how to talk to the "bare metal"
    of the sensor.

    I was recently at a seminar given by ST and I asked one of the reps
    there where to get this info. He promised to send my question up the
    chain, and a few hours later I got an email saying that because the
    sensor is so complex to operate, ST had made the conscious decision to
    *not* release the register map. They referred me to alternate libraries
    from e.g. Adafruit. When I asked how Adafruit had gotten the info to
    write their library, the reply was "They hacked it."

    Is there, someplace, a doc -- ST or otherwise -- that describes these
    things? They're being sold cheap by the bazillions so I'm hoping
    somebody has put something together.

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