Hey Mike. Let me know if you run into any issues. I got it working but you may find some things that I didn't think about. Also, I will be interested in seeing how it runs for someone else.

Hey David, I just installed the plug-in and got it running. Looks like the center or the little square is the lidar box, I am going to be scanning side to side and a head of the robot. I just now started to play around with it, this is the furthest I've seen anybody get without having special software, learning other people's software as well, so thank you very much.

Mike

You are welcome. Tomorrow I will make and post a video that will act as a tutorial and a demonstration of it working so that others who don't have this sensor and controller can see it working. After that I will optimize reading the serial data from the sensor and try to figure out how to make the display smoother. I ran my sensor all night last night to see if anything hung up on it. It ran all night without an issue. Also, I need to work on the dispose function a bit. Right now it will crash if you close the control I think. One more thing I want to add is the ability to save your settings for this control so that you don't have to keep setting it back up when you restart your ARC project.

I wanted to get this out to make sure that nobody else had issues with it so far. Also I knew there were some that bought this based on my recommendation in another post and had not been able to use it yet. I felt bad about that. There is another sensor that the same thing happened on. I need to get to working on that also for the same reason but I don't expect that I will be able to for a while.

I wish I were better with graphics. I am horible with them and was happy to get done what I was able to get done with this. I may have to learn but hope that someone who is much better than I can take the code and make the map look great.

David, do you think you would be able to overlay a camera on you plug-in. Then you may not have to do the graphs as you were talking about. do you think is it possible.

The save setting is a great idea, especially for those who have onboard computers.

Right now I'm just trying to get an idea of how I need to mount this lidar on my base I think I have that part now I need to figure out the distances .

Thanks, Mike

Also what is the measurements of the distance are they in millimeters or inches. I guess my question is when variable goes from 1 to 200 what is that distance do you know thanks

Where do you obtain one of the lidar units?

@JustinRatliff. Here is the link....https://www.getsurreal.com/shop

@Davis thanks! This is awesome work dude.... Looking forward to your video. Now I need to find some money to buy one...