How do I make data from LiDAR sensor wirelessly transfer it's data to vibration motors?

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Hello!

The LiDAR sensor and and the multiple vibration motors are both going to be connected to a RPiPico but hear me out.

Esentially, I want the LiDAR to sense an obstacle and send a signal to the Vibration motor and make it vibrate. I wanted the range to be 5-8 meters as the LiDAR I am using has a range of 8 meters. I know bluetooth might be one of the options (even that I am going to have a difficult time coding because I have low experience) if I am using a RPiPico but just wanted to know if there's any alternatives to this, even with an arduino perhaps.

I think you can already tell I have very low experience with any of these devices but I am willing to try.

Hope someone can help!

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With two ESP32's or ESP8266 you could use the ESP-Now protocol that's very simple to use.
With Pico or Arduino and a 433MHz transmitter/receiver pair you could use the Radiohead library. Also pretty easy.

You could use BLE as you mentioned, but that's probably the hardest way to do it.

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there is the Raspberry Pi Pico W which has built in 2.4GHz 802.11n WiFi connectivity
using a pair

  1. you could connect to a local WiFi network and use TCP/IP client/server to transfer the data
  2. one could act as an access point running a TCP server with a client connecting too it

or as @cedarlakeinstruments recommends use a pair of ESP32/ESP8266 microcontrollers transferring data using WiFi TCP/IP or ESP-NOW

both the RP2040 Pico W and ESP devices are supported by the Arduino IDE with libraries for connecting to WiFi networks, setting up client/servers, etc

if you with to use BLE the ESP32 has onboard WiFi, Bluetooth Classic and BLE - but as @cedarlakeinstruments mentions BLE is none trivial to use

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