For this week I wanted to do a time of flight (ToF) sensor for my final project. In the final project a ToF sensor will regulate stimulation frequency.

I returned to this week after the output week (week 9) the final project. Since the SAMD11 did not work with floating values (which is necessary for my final project), I went ahead and did my own SAMD21 devkit in Fusion 360. I was inspired by Quentin Bolsee's SAMD21 Devkit but had to design it myself from scratch since there were no files available for Eagle (and I wanted to modify the devkit). These were the image exports of the SAMD21 devkit from Eagle.

With the Devkit out of the way I went ahead and started designing the ToF board with Fusion 360. When done milling it, I found that the pin traces were too compact (they were all connected) for the component to work. With most time having been spent this week on designing the SAMD21 devkit board, I had to fold it for this week.

I came back later to this week's assignment during my final project week. Here, I bought the Sparkfun VL53L5CX ToF component. Reading the datasheet, I found that the sensor needed to plugin to a SCL and SDA compatible pin on my board. In the final project, I was using an ESP32 microcontroller with the SDA being on the 21 pin and SCL on the 22. pin.