diff --git a/images/console-image.bb b/images/console-image.bb
index 25099fb..704bdf4 100644
--- a/images/console-image.bb
+++ b/images/console-image.bb
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ IMAGE_INSTALL += " \
     ${WIFI_SUPPORT} \
     ${MQTT} \
     ${PYTHON_LIBS} \
- "
+	vl53l0x-api \
+"
 
 set_local_timezone() {
     ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC ${IMAGE_ROOTFS}/etc/localtime
diff --git a/recipes-devtools/vl53l0x-api/vl53l0x-api_1.0.0.bb b/recipes-devtools/vl53l0x-api/vl53l0x-api_1.0.0.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ab303c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes-devtools/vl53l0x-api/vl53l0x-api_1.0.0.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+DESCRIPTION = " "
+SECTION = "devtools"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+
+PR = "r1"
+PV = "1.0.0"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/MIT;md5=0835ade698e0bcf8506ecda2f7b4f302"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+    git://gitlab.blackfinn.de/tkl/vl53l0x-api.git;protocol=https;tag=${PV} \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "a60bcf593ba5080bc2463a8abe8ab7b3"
+
+DEPENDS = " \
+    \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+    \
+"
+
+TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${LDFLAGS}"
+
+INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-dev += "dev-elf"
+
+do_install() {
+	install -d ${D}${libdir}
+	install -d ${D}${includedir}
+	install -m 0644 ${S}/bin/libvl53l0x.so ${D}${libdir}/
+	install -m 0644 ${S}/Api/core/inc/vl53l0x_api.h ${D}${includedir}
+	install -m 0644 ${S}/platform/inc/vl53l0x_platform.h ${D}${includedir}
+}
+
+PACKAGES = "${PN} ${PN}-dbg ${PN}-dev"
+
+FILES_${PN} = "${libdir}/libvl53l0x.so"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dev = " \
+	${includedir}/vl53l0x_api.h \
+	${includedir}/vl53l0x_platform.h \
+"
+