A lot of making goes on in this community these days, but sometimes you’ve just gotta do some old fashioned hacking. You might have grabbed an old Speak and Spell that you want to repurpose ...
A vl53l5cx library for esp32 using the esp-idf framework. This library is based on ST's Ultra Lite Driver (ULD) for VL53L5CX v2.0.1 . This library is just an adaptation of the ST's library for esp-32.