LIDAR Sensor has arrived!

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Originally Posted by seg9585

Ah, thank you! I originally wrote up my own test code without the scheduler implementation and couldn't get it to work in this port, so I switched to yours with similar results. They seem to work just fine in the expansion port, making me curious if the I2C onboard has a bug or is otherwise disabled on the roboRio. I'll contact NI and let them know.
For now, works perfectly on the MXP, thanks again!

Poking around the linux side with i2ctools there are definitive read/write errors showing up for the onboard port, so I'll be sure to let them know.

Originally Posted by JesseK

I might get one of these to poke around with. Our programming team is talking crazy talk for autonomous, and I don't know that the drive train will have quite the precision they require to squeak in under 15 seconds.

Anyone tried this out on diamond plate? I bet more than my team has felt a twinge of failure with ultrasonics when moving from the lab to the field.

Anything solid and IR opaque should have good data from this sensor. The diamond plate will definitely give good distance readings, but totes and lexan still need to be tested.