LIDAR Sensor has arrived!

[muvicado]

Originally Posted by seg9585

Just wanted to share that a new LIDAR (laser radar/rangefinder) is out on the market from "PulsedLight3D" for $90 -- Class I laser so it's FIRST legal. Just arrived today in the mail, and I hooked it up to my Arduino:



Did some initial testing via I2C, seems to be very accurate between ~20cm and 650cm (as far as I could test it tonight without finding a larger room), 0.5 deg beam width

Here's a snapshot of my Serial output with distance in cm (~100 Hz samples averaged and output at 5 Hz), sitting on my desk facing up to the ceiling.


http://pulsedlight3d.com/
We're going to have fun with this!

Do you know if more than one LIDAR-Lite can be connected via CAN through the MXP's can bus?

The LIDAR-Lite appears to have a fixed slave address - 0xC4.

LIDAR-Lite Spec

Why would they not make it configurable? Seems like that would prevent one from being able to use multiple LIDAR-Lites on the same I2C bus.

Maybe I'm missing something. The LIDAR's slave address must be configurable somehow.