Since $5585 USD is "affordable", I wonder what their idea of "expensive" would be?
That's pretty funny; I knew these sensors were fairly expensive, but I never realized they were multi-thousand dollar devices:
It doesn't say whether it uses angular measurement (triangulation with 2D cmos sensor array), or 2D time-of-flight (LIDAR); with that price I would guess the latter (basically working like an ultrasonic distance sensor, just at a much higher speed, timing the flight of the laser pulse for distance measurement), but maybe not?
I'm hoping for my robot project to implement a cheap multi-point-grid webcam-based LIDAR system (using OpenCVS most likely); maybe if somehow I get funding I can afford some of these more fancy toys!
