Overview

This provides a simple C interface to the LidarLite. It is based on the WiringPi interface. lidarTest.c is a simple test version. If you have any issues, please post to the issues tab.

• LidarLite overview

Usage

Install the Wiring library for your board:

• RaspberryPi wiringPi

• ODROID C1 wiringPi

Download the Zipfile and extract to a directory

• run cmake
• run make

Library interfaces

• int lidar_init(bool debug); // Initializes system. Param indicates whether to log debug messages.
  Returns file descriptor

• int lidar_read(int file_desc); // Returns distance. First param is file descriptor from lidar_init

Pin Connections

Double-check these with your latest hardware documentation.

Svr is RaspberryPi or ODROID C1

Svr	Desc	LIDAR
2	5V	1 (Red)
3	SDA	5

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5 | SCL | 4 6 | GND | 6