[ros-users] Cheap Lidar for Prototyping / POC

[Rud Merriam]

I've not worked with it outdoors myself but someone I know has. The 
shielding is to keep sunlight out of the sensor, not to protect people 
from the laser.


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*Rud Merriam K5RUD
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On 09/15/2015 02:21 PM, Walter Lucetti wrote:
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> Shielding? The laser has enough power to be visible in direct sunlight?
> Good!
>
> Do you know the outdoor range?
> As far as I know the indoor range is not really extended
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> Walter Lucetti
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> Il 15/Set/2015 20:03, "Rud Merriam via ros-users" 
> <ros-users at lists.ros.org <mailto:ros-users at lists.ros.org>> ha scritto:
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>     The Neato will work outdoors with diminished range and may need
>     shielding from sunlight.
>
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>     *Rud Merriam K5RUD
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>     On 09/15/2015 12:53 PM, Walter "Myzhar" Lucetti via ros-users wrote:
>>     The Laser mounted on the Neato works only indoor, right?
>>
>>     Walter
>>
>>     2015-09-15 19:34 GMT+02:00 William Woodall via ros-users
>>     <ros-users at lists.ros.org <mailto:ros-users at lists.ros.org>>:
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>>         I think they're only available for pre-order, but there is a
>>         cheap lidar from Rhoeby Dynamics:
>>
>>         http://rhoeby.com/?page_id=22
>>         http://www.ros.org/news/2015/03/announcing-rhoeby---a-ros-navigation-capable-hexapod-robot.html
>>
>>         Also, there is the Sensors page on the wiki:
>>         http://wiki.ros.org/Sensors#A2D_range_finders
>>
>>         On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Josemar Rodrigues de Souza
>>         via ros-users <ros-users at lists.ros.org
>>         <mailto:ros-users at lists.ros.org>> wrote:
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>>
>>             We
>>             [http://www.acso.uneb.br/bill/index.php?n=Main.HomePage]
>>             are using Rplidar
>>             [http://www.dfrobot.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1125&search=rplidar&description=true#.VfhQ9flVhBc]
>>
>>
>>             Regards,
>>
>>             Josemar
>>             Professor Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, Ph.D.
>>             josemar at uneb.br <mailto:josemar at uneb.br>
>>             Universidade do Estado da Bahia - UNEB
>>             ACSO - Núcleo de Arquitetura de Computadores e Sistemas
>>             Operacionais
>>             http://www.acso.uneb.br <http://www.acso.uneb.br/>
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>>             2015-09-15 8:41 GMT-03:00 Jake Angulo via ros-users
>>             <ros-users at lists.ros.org <mailto:ros-users at lists.ros.org>>:
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>>                 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
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