[chbot] UNI-T UT390B Laser Range Finder Distance Meter

[hamster]

I saw this Laser Rangefinder on Seeed yesterday


http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/RPLIDAR-360-degree-Laser-Scanner-Development-Kit-p-1823.html


Most probably only useful indoors, and very pricy too, but has a very
high drool-factor. 

Must... win.... Lotto.... 

On 10.07.2014 14:25,
Robin Gilks wrote: 

> Greetings all
> 
> I've started to collect
sensors of one sort or another for my robotic
> walnut picker-upper.
>

> So far I've received the above hand held Laser range finder that
operates
> over a range of 50mm to 40m (+/- 2mm allegedly) (tested from
50mm to 35m
> so far!!) which has a serial interface to allow hacking
into it as
> detailed here :)
>
http://blog.qartis.com/arduino-laser-distance-meter/ [1]
> 
> I'll bring
it to the next meeting as its a nice bit of kit (even if it did
> come
from China and is probably really really dangerous).
> 
> Cheers




Links:
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[1]
http://blog.qartis.com/arduino-laser-distance-meter/
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