MIKROE has introduced LightRanger 14 Click, an optical sensor add-on board that provides distance and depth measurement using direct time-of-flight technology. The board is intended for embedded systems that require 3D sensing, real-time ranging, or spatial awareness functions, such as people-counting equipment, autofocus mechanisms, robotics, and gesture-recognition systems.
The design is based on the ams OSRAM TMF8829 dToF sensor, which integrates SPAD detection, time-to-digital conversion, and histogram processing. It supports multiple depth-map resolutions—8×8, 16×16, 32×32, and 48×32 zones—and offers measurement ranges from 10 mm to 11,000 mm with 0.25 mm resolution across an 80° field of view. The board includes an integrated VCSEL and multi-lens array to maintain uniform illumination across the sensing area.
Interfaces include I²C (I3C-compatible) and SPI, with additional pins for control and interrupt signaling. As part of MIKROE’s mikroBUS ecosystem, the board supports ClickID for automatic identification by the host platform and is compatible with mikroSDK open-source libraries for device evaluation and software development.
LightRanger 14 Click is one of the company’s optical-sensor Click boards and is supported by numerous reference projects available through MIKROE’s EmbeddedWiki platform.
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