LiDAR (Digital TFmini distance sensor)

[Eissa]

Hello,I am working on a project which is using the TFmini (Time of flight) sensor. 

I am going to use myDAQ and LabVIEW to execute my project but after 10 days, I did not figure out if it is possible with myDAQ or not!

The modue data is a hexadecimal output data, each frame data is encoded with 9 bytes including 1 distance data.

Communication interface: UART

Baud rate: 115200

Data bit: 8

Stop bit: 1

Parity check: nope

http://www.benewake.com/en/down.html

Thank you in advanced

[Samuel.J]

Hey Eissa,

Looking into this a bit it seems like no, the myDAQ does not support UART communication natively. With the DIO pins available to you it  would be possible to read in a digital waveform, although without proper hardware timing it would be very difficult to actually make something of the data that you received.

The myRIO does have UART support though if switching is an option.

[Eissa]

Thank you so much for the response. Do you know about using Arduino and using LINX?

I have tried to get the data, I compared it with GPS but it was really complicated and I couldent find another examples!

[Samuel.J]

Hey!

I don't have much experience working with those but it looks like they have a pretty active support forum themselves:

https://www.labviewmakerhub.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=12

You might have better luck with answers there.

[Reignier66]

Hi Eissa! did you end up figuring this one out! I am working on the same interfacing myself. would be interested to see what you came up with!