Laser rangefinder PCB

[adamvigneron]

Problem

Currently, the laser rangefinder communicates with the Xavier via a three-component breadboard:

• a capacitor connected across the 5 Vdc and Ground lines;
• a 4.7 kΩ resistor connected across the 5 Vdc and I2C SDA lines; and
• a 4.7 kΩ resistor connected across the 5 Vdc and I2C SCL lines.

Signal names correspond to the laser rangefinder documentation¹ while the use of I2C pull-up resistors was recommended by a trusted blog².

Moving forward, we'd like to convert this breadboard into a PCB.

Solution

Met with Alison Fong, a hardware technologist in the Department of Electronics.

Alison confirmed that CU does not manufacture PCBs. She’s happy to check our KiCAD design but asked that we make a prototype board first and use that to test our desired layout.

References

Footnotes

1. https://static.garmin.com/pumac/LIDAR_Lite_v3_Operation_Manual_and_Technical_Specifications.pdf ↩

2. https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/lidar-lite-v3-hookup-guide ↩

[smuzika]

PCB created.