[time-nuts] new tdc from Texas

[Mark Sims]

Sparkfun is selling a board (around $15) based on the STM VL6180 chip that measures distance based upon time-of-flight of pulses from an on chip (or at least in-package) VCSEL IR laser.   Claims to have a range of 0 .. maybe 30 cm.   Unfortunately it doesn't look like you can directly access the time interval measurement portion of the chip. 

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Do you know if they have an IR pulse front end which would be more interesting than the ultrasonic front end?