X-NUCLEO-53L1A1 Ranging Sensor Expansion Board

The X-NUCLEO-53L1A1 expansion board features the VL53L1X ranging and gesture detection sensor, based on ST’s FlightSense™, Time-of-Flight technology.
It provides a complete evaluation kit allowing anyone to learn, evaluate, and develop their applications using the VL53L1X Time of Flight (ToF), long-distance ranging sensor technology. To allow the user to validate the VL53L1X in an environment as close as possible to its final application, the X-NUCLEO-53L1A1 expansion board is delivered with a cover glass holder in which 3 different spacers of 0.25, 0.5 and 1mm height can be fitted below the cover glass in order to simulate various air gaps.
Two VL53L1X satellites can be connected using the two 10 pin connectors.
The expansion board is compatible with the STM32 Nucleo board family, and with the Arduino UNO R3 connector layout. Several ST expansion boards can be superposed through the Arduino connectors, which allows, for example, to develop VL53L1X applications with Bluetooth or other interfaces.

Key Features

• VL53L1X Time-of-Flight (ToF), long-distance ranging sensor module
• Accurate absolute ranging distance, independent of the reflectance of the target
• 0.25, 0.5 and 1 mm spacers to simulate air gaps
• Two different cover windows
• Two VL53L1X breakout boards
• Compatible with STM32 Nucleo board family.
• Equipped with ArduinoTM UNO R3 connector.
• RoHS compliant.
  

User Manual

X-NUCLEO-53L1A1 User Manual can be found here.

Example Applications

With Expansion Board, and No Satellite Boards.

• VL53L1A1_Simple_Ranging_With_One_Device

With Expansion Board, and Accompanying (Blue) Satellites.

• VL53L1A1_Simple_Ranging_With_All_Devices, using polling.
• VL53L1X_Ranging_With_Multiple_Devices, using interrupts.

With Standalone (Green) Satellite Board

(Part-number : VL53L1X-SATEL. Orderable from https://www.st.com/en/evaluation-tools/vl53l1x-satel.html.)
Uses the Green Satellite board connected directly to the processor board. The Expansion Board is not required, and the Blue Satellite boards are not supported with this example.

• VL53L1X_Ranging_With_Standalone_Satellite

Further information and ordering

X-NUCLEO-53L1A1 can be purchased directly from ST web site.
The page provides additional documents like a user manual, a quick start guide, schematics, gerber files and bill of materials.
Additional SW and tools are also provided.