Introduction

In one of my older blog posts, I wrote about the LTE side of things on this Mezzanine. However, in this one, we are going to discuss how to get three of the four on-board sensors working. The LTE mezzanine has the following set of sensors:

Bosch BNO055: 3 Sensors in one device - triaxial 16bit gyroscope, triaxial 14bit, and full performance geomagnetic sensor.
Analog Device ADUX1020:
- Multifunction photometric sensor and signal conditioning
- Gesture recognition with 0.5cm to 15cm range
- Proximity sensing to 20cm
- Gesture/proximity works under infrared (IR) transparent glass or other materials
ST VL53L0CX: Time of Flight Sensor
Analog Device ADT7410: A High-performance temperature sensor

Bosch BNO055

This sensor is luckily supported by UPM, so it is easy for us to use it via upm and mraa, ant to do that:

Before compiling upm, change the i2c bus from 0 to 1 in the bno055 example, in the file examples/c/bno055.c change line bno055_context sensor = bno055_init(0, BNO055_DEFAULT_ADDR); to bno055_context sensor = bno055_init(0, BNO055_DEFAULT_ADDR);

Build with cmake flag -DBUILDEXAMPLES=ON.

Run Example: ./examples/c/bno055-example-c

Output before calibration:

root@linaro-alip:~/upm/build# ./examples/c/bno055-example-c
First we need to calibrate.  4 numbers will be output every
second for each sensor.  0 means uncalibrated, and 3 means
fully calibrated.
See the UPM documentation on this sensor for instructions on
what actions are required to calibrate.
Magnetometer: 0 Accelerometer: 0 Gyroscope: 0 System: 0
Magnetometer: 0 Accelerometer: 0 Gyroscope: 3 System: 0
Magnetometer: 0 Accelerometer: 0 Gyroscope: 3 System: 0

Output after calibration:

Calibration complete.

Euler: Heading: 114.875000 Roll: 5.312500 Pitch: 12.125000 degrees
Quaternion: W: 0.534363 X: -0.096436 Y: 0.063538 Z: -0.837341
Linear Acceleration: X: 0.180000 Y: -0.070000 Z: 0.460000 m/s^2
Gravity Vector: X: 0.910000 Y: -2.050000 Z: 9.540000 m/s^2

Euler: Heading: 114.437500 Roll: 10.500000 Pitch: 10.562500 degrees
Quaternion: W: 0.536682 X: -0.126831 Y: 0.026428 Z: -0.833801
Linear Acceleration: X: 0.240000 Y: -0.070000 Z: 1.350000 m/s^2
Gravity Vector: X: 1.790000 Y: -1.760000 Z: 9.470000 m/s^2

Euler: Heading: 113.562500 Roll: 10.812500 Pitch: 11.125000 degrees
Quaternion: W: 0.542603 X: -0.131958 Y: 0.028076 Z: -0.829102
Linear Acceleration: X: -0.100000 Y: 0.150000 Z: -0.090000 m/s^2
Gravity Vector: X: 1.840000 Y: -1.860000 Z: 9.440000 m/s^2

To calibrate while the example is running:

GYR: Simply let the sensor sit flat for a few seconds.
ACC: Move the sensor in various positions. Start flat, then rotate slowly by 45 degrees, hold for a few seconds, then continue rotating another 45 degrees and hold, etc. 6 or more movements of this type may be required. You can move through any axis you desire, but make sure that the device is lying at least once perpendicular to the x, y, and z-axis.
MAG: Move slowly in a figure 8 pattern in the air, until the calibration values reaches 3.
SYS: This will usually reach 3 when the other items have also reached 3. If not, continue slowly moving the device through various axes until it does.

ST VL53L0CX

This sensor originally worked using a Licensed API from ST, however, pololu on GitHub created an independent library for Arduous to get this sensor working. Another user on GitHub mjbogusz, then used pololu’s library to create a generic Linux based library that we can use.

Clone the repo: $ git clone https://github.com/ric96/vl53l0x-linux
Compile:
```
$ cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make
```
Run: $ ./examples/single

Output:

Reading74 | 134
Reading75 | 132
Reading76 | 128
Reading77 | 118
Reading78 | 107
Reading79 | 95
Reading80 | 80
Reading81 | 74
Reading82 | 72
Reading83 | 64
Reading84 | 63
Reading85 | 76
Reading86 | 79
Reading87 | 92

Analog Device ADT7410

This is easily the most straightforward sensor to use out of this bunch, informationsea had a very simple C code available on GitHub which I modified slightly:

Clone the repo: $ git clone https://github.com/ric96/ADT7410
Build: $ make
Run: $ ./ADT7410

Output:

length: 4
[00] 10
[01] d0
[02] 80
[03] 00
33.625000
length: 4
[00] 10
[01] d0
[02] 80
[03] 00
33.625000
length: 4
[00] 10
[01] d0
[02] 80
[03] 00
33.625000