LIDAR is a very exciting technology that is only just now starting to become accessible to the DIY market. Think radar, but with lasers. There’s a few different modules starting to pop up for ...

The LiDAR laser is attached to a rotating turntable. The laser scans an area of 16 vertical sections, or “slices,” per second. In total, the device emits 1.3 million laser pulses per second.

The Lidar laser is mounted on a turntable. A rotating mirror in the Lidar module ensures that a section of 16 vertical slices can be scanned ten times per second. The vertical sections form a ...