A111 with Aduino

Sensors Distance
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Hi.

Has anyone succeeded in using the A111 radar board with an Arduino? Are there any libraries available?

Thanks.

Barry.

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Their code is designed for Cortex M4 and ARMv7 processors only, though they host OUR code as well, behind a ‘login-wall’

Head over to https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/ge … re-your-pi and follow the instructions for “Get The SDK” and be sure to download the SparkFun version of the software from their site, and perhaps that’ll get you started.

Best of luck!

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Thanks. I will see how I go with that code on an arduino…

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Hi @TS-Russell

It looks like this is beyond me. Way beyond me … I have imported the libraries and tried to compile them - but they are tightly intertwined with Linux so I can’t see any reasonable path here.

I am trying to get the A111 radar to work with an Arduino Trinket Pro 5V 16Mhz. (I would be happy with any Arduino…) to make a ground proximity detector. I have the display part working, but unless someone has an Arduino library for the A111 - I think i am stuck. My options seem to be:

  1. Find an Arduino library for the A111

  2. use a Raspberry Pi Zero (I assume that can talk to the A111 with the library provided?)

  3. Find another distance sensor that can detect the distance to the ground - up to about 2+ meters, when travelling at 60+ miles per hour. perhaps I try a Lidar … it seems to work for drones including the Mars Helicopter!

Any suggestions or advise?

Thanks. Barry.

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e.g. I am thinking the TFmini Plus (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/17976) might be my best chance with Lidar?

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I have been looking deeper at this, and I don’t understand why there is not another option … to use the SPI interface and recieve data.

I realise the info provided is clear the software is for a PI and has hardware requirements, but the A111 is also promoted as having a SPI interface, so I did just assume you could talk to it from anything SPI compatable. Is it Acconeer making this difficult?

Even if the data over SPI is very raw and needs processing then a Arduino might be slow, but it should be able to work…