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Neato Lidar

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This is just to get the chat about the Neato LIDAR. Ideas on how to interface it use it or what ever about it.

Robotmaker has had them and selling them. They run on 5v about 500mA. It communicates with serial. I am just not sure of the baud rate parity bit for it.

Being that it can communicate serially. Once you know that stuff couldn't you just use a port and run it serially? Or would that slow the program down processing the info.


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Some of the Neato Lidar units are 5 vdc and some are 3.3vdc. You will need an additional circuit board to control the rpm of the Lidar unit and then a program that takes the output of the 360 degree scans and convert to a room shape or scan shape of an area.

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#2  

500mA is a bit power heavy, The sharp IR sensors are only 40mA. You wouldn't want that running for long.

If it's serial it should be pretty simple to interface with ARC. Using the data on the other hand may be a little trickier.

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MOSTLY THE CURRENT IS NEAR 350MA ,when i check it,LIDAR is my baby

here is one link,and i have a few more with post

lidar hacking

it has more info if you read the blogs ,but is shows a simple one chip speed controller ,super easy to build and motor RPM IS 300

There is a guy who sells a board with TTL CONVERTER and a speed controller very cheap plus anyone wants a board i can make the speed controller and calibrate it easy $5 plus shipping

I also sell the LIDAR on ebay and they sell fast

Will post a lot more info ,photos and a lot more in a few days

#4  

more about the LIDAR the accuracy is almost the same as a $1200 LIDAR the guy who hack it got about $700 FROM MAKERSHED,think it was about $400 and then another company added $300

#5  

Here is another hack with a lot more info and on the board you can buy

lidar hack site

there is a lady in france who i sold one while back who made a design on quadcopter using it and is finished

#6  

ROBOT-doC none i heard uses 3.3 volts that is what the motor uses

RICH ON the KINECT that everyone waiting on DJ to finish the interface for uses 1.6 amps at 12 volts and another 400ma at 5 volts for usb

#7  

ON sharp sensors at 40ma you need a few ,plus SONAR .on a camera looking at about i guess 200 ma

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