vl53l0x_mraa_ros

ROS package for using VL53L0X with libmraa.

Features

• Supports functions of STMicro API by copying code from Adafruit_VL53L0X
  • Difference from ros_vl53l0x
• ROS messages including whole ranging information from VL53L0X API
• Exports C++ library of class controlling VL53L0X
• Avoids build failure even without libmraa
  • You can use ROS messages only in other PCs which libmraa doesn't support

Installation

Install C/C++ Library in libmraa

You can skip this when you only need ROS messages.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mraa/mraa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libmraa1 libmraa-dev mraa-tools

Install vl53l0x_mraa_ros

$ cd ~/catkin_ws/src/
$ git clone https://github.com/pazeshun/vl53l0x_mraa_ros.git
$ cd ..
$ catkin build
$ source devel/setup.bash

Running sample

$ rosrun vl53l0x_mraa_ros single_vl53l0x_ros

Changelog for package vl53l0x_mraa_ros

4.3.0 (2021-07-14)

• Merge pull request #2751 from knorth55/fix-version fix version in demo packages
• fix version in demo packages change to 4.2.1 for all other jsk_apc packages
• Merge pull request #2707 from pazeshun/add-sphand_ros
• [sphand_ros] Fix installing to follow http://docs.ros.org/melodic/api/catkin/html/howto/format1/index.html
• [sphand_ros] Add install settings
• [sphand_ros] Remove dependency to mraa from package.xml Because adding apt repository is required for mraa and rosdep cannot resolve dependency
• Remove .gitignore which is the same as one in jsk_apc
• Copy vl53l0x_mraa_ros from https://github.com/pazeshun/vl53l0x_mraa_ros
• Contributors: Shingo Kitagawa, Shun Hasegawa