Comment by Ryan on August 29, 2010 at 3:55am

Yep, I'd like to have a look at it...$2500 is not as bad as DGPS receiver

Comment by Chris McNair on August 29, 2010 at 8:47am

Why not use this? http://www.procerusuav.com/Downloads/DataSheets/AeriusMiniatureLase...

Developer Comment by Mark Colwell on August 29, 2010 at 9:25am

That would be a great unit except the he cost..$5000+ . I spent $40 on my Bushnel Sport 400, opened it up and found the com port (4 pads) I need to connect o'scope and protocol analyzer to discover commands. Should be able to get 1 Hz updates out. I was encouraged to try this after talking with Lattitude Eng. Group rep at AVUSI show.

Comment by Mike on August 29, 2010 at 9:57am

Ryan will plough through my archives and try to dig it out for ya.

Cheers,
Mike

Comment by Öncü Kayalar on August 29, 2010 at 3:43pm

http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/200110/vision.htm

Comment by Ryan on August 29, 2010 at 3:58pm

Thanks Mike

Kayalar - that's some cool stuff there!

Comment by Chris McNair on August 29, 2010 at 6:11pm

Procerus has removed their price but it was only $700.

Comment by marshall scholz on August 29, 2010 at 7:31pm

for a more complete altitude mesuring system you could use a hacked one of these and a ultrasonic range finder for closer to the ground making atonomus landings much safer

Comment by Ritchie on August 30, 2010 at 10:41am

For a laser range finder I have used laser pen and a webcam to be accurate to 15cm with range limited by the camera (resolution) and laser (dot visibility - yes night makes it better)
Also created a 3D scanner using a cocktail stirer, laser pen and webcam (£3 cost in total :D).

Unfortunately these were both done using a desktop PC and VB.net and until I can snag a SMD camera that i can easily use I will not be able to begin to "UAV" the setups. I am still trying to mix the hardware setup to produce both range and scans with one laser but the 3D scan requires an altered laser line.
ColinOrd has source code shown and his attempts. Setup is more important as you can skew the scan.
Danko has source code and how to calibrate the setup. Works straight off the bat.

Comment by M. Elamin Ali on April 25, 2011 at 4:35am

I bought this range finder I opened it up I think the easyest way to hack it is through lcd cable because it's 7 segment its hackable ,

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