I'll second the recommendation for the Neato. I have a couple with the support boards and they work nicely with the ROS package. You can usually find the lidar on e-bay and the support boards, also. - 73 - *Rud Merriam K5RUD * /Mystic Lake Software / On 09/15/2015 07:17 AM, Romain Reignier via ros-users wrote: > Hi, > > There is also the lidar from the Neato XV-11 robot vacuum but you have > to find a working one and add a board to drive the motor. > > There is a ROS driver: http://wiki.ros.org/xv_11_laser_driver > > It is not the simplest but by far the cheapest Lidar I found. > > More infos here: https://xv11hacking.wikispaces.com/LIDAR+Sensor > > Regards, > > Romain > > Le 15/09/2015 13:41, Jake Angulo via ros-users a écrit : >> Hi All, >> >> I am currently prototyping a home-utility robot as POC (to be >> industrialized), and need a really cheap Lidar that has at least been >> proven to work with ROS. >> >> Im using ROS on top of Raspberry Pi 2. >> >> (im currently looking at lidar lite 2 and rp-lidar, but im not so sure >> as i cant see any ROS project featuring those) >> >> >> Any ideas pls? >> >> >> Rgds, >> >> >> Jake >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@lists.ros.org >> http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >> > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users