VL53L5CX ToF Imager setup?

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I have the Example 1 distance display program working on a Teensy 3.5, and now I would like to try the ToF Imager setup. However, I’m more than a little bit confused about how to set this up.

I viewed your video, and from that it appears the imaging program is running on a laptop to convert CSV data to pseudo-colored blocks, but when I looked at the imaging code ‘SparkFun_VL53L5CX_3D_Depth_Map.pde’, it is obviously not any kind of Windows executable.

The video says the visualizer was created “using processing”. Is this something that runs on the PC?

Can someone sell this old engineer a clue? :wink:

TIA,

Frank

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‘Processing’ is a java backend for interfacing with data; DL it here https://processing.org/ and then after uploading Example4 to the board https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/qw … the-output

After the code is on the board, open the ‘.pde’ file in Processing and change the line to match your board’s COM port, and bingo! :smiley:

Here’s a separate guide to Processing (pretty old, though) if you want more info https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/co … processing

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Thanks for the quick and helpful response. Went to their website, downloaded the program, and got it working without much trouble. Yay!!