Here we have it - an affordable Open Source Laser RangeFinder - OSLRF-01 from www.lightware.co.za. You can order it fully assembled and working or just PCB and optics (all other components have to find by Yourself).
So next step is connect it somehow to something. At that moment I found just one sucsess story shared online - Arduino Scanning LIDAR by Michael Ball http://arduino-pi.blogspot.com/2014/03/prototype-of-oslrf01-arduino-scanning.html. That was a very nice place to start connecting it to my Arduino UNO. Michael done it with ...
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