3D Robotics

Project to clone the Neato Lidar

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This guy is reverse engineering the Neato Robotics Lidar system, which is by far the lowest-cost Lidar availalble. Neato has so far not made the Lidar available as a stand-alone product, thus this effort to clone and open source it.

A cheap and light Lidar system could open up a whole new class of UAVs that could navigate indoors and outside of GPS coverage. One way or another, it looks like that's on the way.

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  • Chris

    This is what I'm designing from a BGM5208 hollow shaft brushless motor, slip ring and controller.

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    Of course I'm still waiting for my Lidar Lite. 

    Where is the best place to share this design?

    Does the Open Lidar Project have a home page?

    Thanks

    RoboBill

  • Hmm.... sparkfun AVC 2012

  • Developer

    Very nice project. Keep up the good work !

  • Nicee!! considering so inexpensive ( compared to other lidar radars) actually it can open a new market for the Neato. Adopting it for APM... jummm!! ( sounds like a APM 2.5 (as upgrade) or APM 3.0 can be born out of this jeje ).. I think a went to far beyond in my imag.. jeje Hope to hear good news from this one soon!

  • Distributor

    It would be awesome if he succeeds in creating an open source LIDAR!  Best of luck!

  • Moderator
    So now it's not a problem making clone? Just funny how things changes. Great project!
  • Developer

    This would be a huge advance.  Best of luck to Hash!

  • Awesome once it's viable APM could integrate the same might need an extra processor to do processing :)
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