# Connecting an external sensor to VOXL

Source: https://forum.modalai.com/topic/1133/connecting-an-external-sensor-to-voxl
Category: General Questions (https://forum.modalai.com/category/2/general-questions)
Posted: 2022-07-19 15:48:10 UTC by Niket Shah
Replies: 2 · Views: 492

## Niket Shah · 2022-07-19 15:48:10 UTC

Hi, I wanted to connect a [Lightware SF45b](http://support.lightware.co.za/sf45b/#/introduction) to the VOXL, and run their ros driver to get the data from the sensor. Can you suggest me the ways to do it?

## Reply by Chad Sweet (ModalAI staff) · 2022-07-26 19:34:34 UTC

You will need to write your own driver that uses [libvoxl_io](https://docs.modalai.com/libvoxl-io/#uart)

## Reply by Niket Shah · 2022-07-26 19:48:15 UTC

Thank you so much for the response Chad!