rotation of the mirror, to know where you are looking (range finding).
Stan
Brian Lloyd wrote:
>On Mar 9, 2008, at 9:29 AM, Brian Lloyd wrote:
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>>>>Why do you think that a suitable laser would cost that much? What
>>>>are
>>>>you trying to do?
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>>>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.
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>>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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>Hmm, if you want to get fancy, instead of using multiple LASER diodes
>you can mechanically scan the beam from the LASER diode. An electric
>motor with a mirror attached to its shaft should do.
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