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.
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
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!
It would be awesome if he succeeds in creating an open source LIDAR! Best of luck!
This would be a huge advance. Best of luck to Hash!