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A project log for Open LIDAR

This project is to build a motorized gimbal mount to convert a laser distance module into a 3d LIDAR.

caveradamcaver.adam 09/29/2016 at 13:120 Comments

The project is currently hooked up entirely on the old gimbal I made some time back. Also, the code for each individual part of the project works. Bluetooth, hall magnet detection, SD card, SF30, motor driving. Now it's just a matter of combining everything.

Last night [before I ran out of time] I wrote the code to perform a scan of the room. But I was having the Arduino crash on me in mid sentence. Literally -- it was crashing in the middle of serial outputs over Bluetooth. I suspect I'm either running too much serial too quickly or that I'm having some sort of buffer issue with Bluetooth module. I'm going to try to mess with some strategic delays and with shorter sentences being output across Bluetooth sometime in the next couple nights.

Soooo close to getting a first scan.

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