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Permalink Reply by Wesley Chuen on May 23, 2012 at 8:16am

I don't see why not.  Probably cost would be the only issue.

Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 23, 2012 at 8:24am

Yes that would be the only issue.  If I had money and more brains I would probably try it.  I had seen it on another uav helicopter.  I have been trying to do some more research on it.

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on May 23, 2012 at 8:55am

Count on me.

LIDARs and other laser apps are why I was lead to here as primary application. 

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Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 23, 2012 at 11:06am

Have you been working on something? 

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on May 23, 2012 at 11:15am

I will post the system part of it in a few days.

Then we can talk.

Any laser application, specially for water and vegetation scanning is of interest for me. 

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Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 23, 2012 at 11:24am

I will do whatever I can to help.  If I need to build something let me know.  I have electronics background and a place to make PCB boards of any kind. 

Permalink Reply by Dara Shayda on May 23, 2012 at 11:26am

All righty, gimme a couple of days, I post it here. 

I have some ideas with immediate applications, problem is I am clumsy with electro-mechanical stuff...

I do not mind to pay for the parts and your build them according to some specs. 

So in a few days

D

Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 23, 2012 at 11:30am

That will work. 

Permalink Reply by Wesley Chuen on May 23, 2012 at 9:19am

Do you have any particular sensor in mind?  What application are you thinking of?

DeveloperPermalink Reply by Randy on May 25, 2012 at 8:45pm

There's been a couple of discussions re laser range finders.

 

Here's one talking about hacking a commercial laser range finder.

Sparkfun also had a challenge (with a prize) to try and get people to share if they'd successfully hacked one (I don't think anyone has had complete success).

And here's a guy who successfully interfaced a very expensive ($2k-ish) hokuyo laser range finder.

 

Needless to say, it would be fantastic if we had a reasonably priced laser range finder!

Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 29, 2012 at 5:47am

It would be awesome if we could make a cheaper version.  Surely with the Arduino we could find something.

Permalink Reply by Bradley J Carr on May 29, 2012 at 6:03am

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/12/20/ultra-low-cost-laser-rangefin...

Take a look at this laser range finder. 

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