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Originally Posted by tilky
does anybody know where to purchase an inexpensive lidar or radar sensor that is compatible with the cRio? a long distance IR will work too. my friend and I are making an autonomous go-kart over the summer, and have spent hours searching, with no luck. only found an IR up to 6.5 meters, we were looking for longer range.
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Keep your eye on the LIDAR-Lite by a startup called Pulsed Light. $72 at 3d robotics (release date in June). They claim it's got up to 40m range using LEDs rather than Lasers, pretty incredible claims. I'm planning on getting ahold of one and determining it's feasibility for use in FIRST robotics. If it does what it says, it could be a cheaper, less power-hungry alternative to putting something like the Kinect on a Robot for ranging.
According to the docs, you can interface to it w/I2C. It may be too early in its lifecycle to use it for what you're looking for, but it does look interesting.
- scott
Control System Mentor
Kauaibots, Team 2465