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Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Anyone have a LIDAR (or similar) product suggestion? I'm getting ready to start a hobby project that involves scanning the interior surfaces of a house. Ideally the accuracy would be at least 1/16" (1.5mm), including any scan-stitching required because the sensor had to be moved around. I've seen a few promising products, but none stands out as a perfect match.

A project I wanted to play with 10 years ago, and didn't have time or money, was a tool you could set in a room, and it would put laser 'dots' along the ceiling where crews should hang the parts for a drop ceiling, to minimize cuts of both hanger equipment, and the ceiling tiles.

That's closely related to what I'm going for. Ultimately I'm looking to make an A.R. system that guides various house remodeling tasks, including framing and floor-leveling.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Only temperature rated to -4F degrees. I hope they can get that lower. Up to ~25 days a year are <0F in Chicago for instance.

That's just the device temperature right? If it's operating device temperature and not device storage temperature I think it's fine.

-4f (-20c) is cold, the cabin of the car is heated to well above that. Just heat the lidar as well.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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post #30

Anyone have a LIDAR (or similar) product suggestion? I'm getting ready to start a hobby project that involves scanning the interior surfaces of a house. Ideally the accuracy would be at least 1/16" (1.5mm), including any scan-stitching required because the sensor had to be moved around. I've seen a few promising products, but none stands out as a perfect match.

mm wave radar + sar postprocessing? Given you have a 100% static scene, it should work great

Are you aware of any low-cost, consumer-oriented products for that?

Perhaps my Google-Fu is weak today, but I'm only finding research / military projects.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Only temperature rated to -4F degrees. I hope they can get that lower. Up to ~25 days a year are <0F in Chicago for instance.

This is the spec for a cold start. If you give it a warm start, you can operate it much lower than -20C! For instance, it's being used in underground mines in Scandinavia without issue.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Does anyone know whether eye safety is de facto maintained when your eye is being continuously bombarded by the 100+ scanning lasers being emitted from each of the 100 cars in the vicinity of an intersection? I'm on board with the case with a handful of lasers scanning by quickly but the energy may really start to add up in certain plausible future scenarios.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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> The OS0 lidar sensor: an ultra-wide field of view sensor with 128 lines of resolution > The OS2 lidar sensor: a long-range sensor with up to 128 lines of resolution > Two new 32 channel sensors: both an OS0 and OS2 version > Price: Starts at $16,000 with volume discounts available I would LOVE to get my hands on this tech. Maybe in 5-10 years when the price comes down to commodity level for hackers to play around w…

About the airflow thing, there's nothing (to my knowledge) preventing you from changing the shape of the enclosure. It's just going to be bigger.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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Does anyone know whether eye safety is de facto maintained when your eye is being continuously bombarded by the 100+ scanning lasers being emitted from each of the 100 cars in the vicinity of an intersection? I'm on board with the case with a handful of lasers scanning by quickly but the energy may really start to add up in certain plausible future scenarios.

I swear I get persistence of vision artifacts when I see a LIDAR equipped vehicle, but need to run a double blind test to be sure.

Re: Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view

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> The OS0 lidar sensor: an ultra-wide field of view sensor with 128 lines of resolution > The OS2 lidar sensor: a long-range sensor with up to 128 lines of resolution > Two new 32 channel sensors: both an OS0 and OS2 version > Price: Starts at $16,000 with volume discounts available I would LOVE to get my hands on this tech. Maybe in 5-10 years when the price comes down to commodity level for hackers to play around w…

Slightly confusing the way you pasted, not sure if intentional. OS0 starts at $6,000 with volume discounts, while the OS2 that starts at $16,000.
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