Camera Tracking System board with Atmega644

Since there are lots of people keep checking on this blog specifically for my camera tracking system running on Atmega chips I attached the schematic for my camera module I did years back. This can be replicated using an Arduino board, however, the main issue for me was that the board was running at 16 … Continue reading →

The LIDAR experience

What ifs a better way to start experimenting other than using it? I’ll present to you the LIDAR bot :) Last night I spent some time to get the data from the LIDAR into one of my custom built boards. I’m a bit rusty but I wrote some code to grab the data for an … Continue reading →

Cheap LIDAR – part 2

A bit more time spent on this and I think I cracked it. First things first: this is a CamsenseX1 LIDAR consumer device used in a vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately it seems these are demo units as the internals are completely different than in the pictures shown by the vendor. The production version, according to some … Continue reading →

Cheap LIDAR

As I have more time nowadays I went back into some thinking. While looking for some things on Aliexpress I found this LIDAR for only 19.99 USD! There is a catch… no documentation! For 19,99 USD including shipping why not to give it a try, right? In less than 2 weeks I got the toy … Continue reading →