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# Trace Unit (For Lidar Bot/Bala)

**Brand:** Little Bird

**URL:** https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/trace-unit-for-lidar-bot-bala

## Pricing

- **Price:** $21.35
- **Stock:** Out of stock
- **Local warehouse:** 0 units
- **Supplier (Little Bird):** 0 units
- **SKU:** M5-A048

## Description

Description TRACE is mainly consist of 4 sets of IR, 1x infrared emitting and 1x infrared receiver for each set. The infrared LEDs should be placed towards and close to the ground where having black tracing lines and white background (or vice versa) layouts. The IR transmitter keep emitting, at the mean time infrared ray would be absorbed by different color of objects. Black can absorb more ray than other color, so the infrared receiver (infrared sensitive phototransistor) would receive less which makes the resistance value of the phototransistor would vary with different object color. Then we assign an AD convertor tp capture the data. This Unit communicates with the M5Core via GROVE PORTA I2C(0x5A). Product Features operation range: The reflecting surface is less than 11mm from the photoelectric surface Program Platform: Arduino, UIFlow(Blockly,Python) Two Lego-compatible holes Kit includes 1x TRACE Unit 1x Grove Cable Application Self-tracing robot Documents TRACE Firmeare Learn Example 1. Arduino IDE The code below is incomplete. To get complete code, please click here。 #include <M5Stack.h> #include "Wire.h" #define TRACE_ADDR 0x5a // declaration #define VALUE_SPLIT uint8_t value; int SensorArray[4] = {0}; // initialization m5.begin(); Serial.begin(115200); Wire.begin(); // read data Wire.beginTransmission(TRACE_ADDR); Wire.write(0x00); Wire.endTransmission(); Wire.requestFrom(TRACE_ADDR,1); while(Wire.available()){ value = Wire.read(); } SensorArray[3] = (value&0x08)>>3; SensorArray[2] = (value&0x04)>>2; SensorArray[1] = (value&0x02)>>1; SensorArray[0] = (value&0x01)>>0; 2. UIFlow To get complete code, please click here。   More information Schematic PinMap M5Core(GROVE A) GPIO22 GPIO21 5V GND TRACE Unit SCL SDA 5V GND

**Product Type:** physical

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For the catalogue index and every other machine-readable endpoint we publish, see [https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/llms.txt](https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/llms.txt).

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## Contact Us

**Little Bird Electronics Pty Ltd**
ABN: 15 634 521 449

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