You might also want to try out the trunk version of the driver. We had
a big patch contributed to it that redoes a lot of the logic. Might
give different results.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:18 AM, John Browning <john_jsb@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I'll experiment some more tonight. It was set at .25 deg increments 100deg
>> scan angle at 500,000bps. the tutorial has a setting of .5 and 180 deg and
>> 38,400bps i'll try that see if it clears up.
>
> The baud rate shouldn't make a difference.  But the angular resolution
> might.  That device naturally samples in 1-degree increments.  To get
> higher resolution, it takes multiple scans, offset from each other,
> and interlaces them.  Perhaps the driver is doing something wrong with
> interlaced scans.
>
>        brian.
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