Re: [oopic] New range finder needed

>> Why do you think that a suitable laser would cost that much? What are
>> you trying to do?
>>
>>
>>
> A cusrory google search for laser range finders returned only things
> in
> that price range. If you know of something cheaper that might work, I
> would be very interested in hearing about it.

Why not make your own? Use a laser diode as your ray source and an
imaging array to look where your imaging ray intersects your source
ray? With a 2D imaging array you can look at multiple sources. There
are lots of cheap cameras out there to do imaging. I bet a CMUcam
could do this.

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