garmin/LIDARLite_RaspberryPi_Library

LIDAR-Lite Raspberry Pi Library

• Product Page: LIDAR-Lite v3 - See product page for operating manual
• Product Support - Direct all support issues to Garmin's Support Team

This library provides quick access to basic functions of LIDAR-Lite via the Raspberry Pi platform. It has been tested on RPi 3 B+ running Raspbian kernel 4.14. Additionally, it can provide a user of any platform with a template for their own application code.

Instructions to enable the I2C peripheral in the ARM core

From a command shell, launch the configuration editor

sudo raspi-config

From the menu, select

• Interfacing Options
• P5 I2C
• Enable the interface
• Select Finish
• Reboot the Raspberry Pi

Wiring the LIDAR-Lite to the Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Header

On the 40-pin header make the following connections -

* LLv3 Blue  (SDA) - RPi pin 3 (GPIO 2)
* LLv3 Green (SCL) - RPi pin 5 (GPIO 3)
* LLv3 Red   (5V ) - RPi pin 4
* LLv3 Black (GND) - RPi pin 6

- Wire a 680uF capacitor across pins 4 and 6

Additionally, see the following tutorials for other information concerning I2C on Raspberry Pi

• Adafruit - Configuring I2C
• Sparkfun - SPI and I2C Tutorial

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries. Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for further details.