Very long distance sensor

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Hello, I just started thinking about a project and I need a very large distance sensor, The project it's about a "GPS gun" Its function is tell me the GPS coordinates, altitude and distance where I'm aiming. I will need a GPS module, a gyrocope, an OLED screen and the distance sensor. I can get all the data I need with a bit of trigonometry.

The problem starts looking for distance modules, there is one called LIDAR-Lite but is very expensive and only reaches 40m. Also I need that be a handheld device so it can't be so big. Ideas?

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The Lidar-Lite is cheap and small, compared to distance sensors that are as accurate at ranges of greater than 40 meters.

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You might want an accelerometer as well. Gyroscopes tend to wander as they are not fixed to any reference such as gravity or magnetic field.

If orientation is what you want to measure then magnetometers and accelerometers would be better options.

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MrWilliam932:
I need a very large distance sensor

Very large distance = 0.1 km? 1 km? 10 km? 100 km?

This golf range finder will get you about 0.9 km. Requires manual entry of the distance into your Arduino system, unless you can hack it. :slight_smile:

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Henradrie:
You might want an accelerometer as well. Gyroscopes tend to wander as they are not fixed to any reference such as gravity or magnetic field.

If orientation is what you want to measure then magnetometers and accelerometers would be better options.

I will bear in mind that, Thank you!

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The project it's about a "GPS gun" Its function is tell me the GPS coordinates, altitude and distance where I'm aiming. I will need a GPS module, a gyrocope, an OLED screen and the distance sensor.

...and a compass.

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DaveEvans:
Very large distance = 0.1 km? 1 km? 10 km? 100 km?

This golf range finder will get you about 0.9 km. Requires manual entry of the distance into your Arduino system, unless you can hack it. :slight_smile:

More than 100m, but I need that to be automatic, no manual entry, cause i cannot put a keyboard in a handheld device, Thank you anyways :slight_smile:

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Who said you need to use a keyboard?

And still the question remains unanswered: how long is "very long"?

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DaveEvans:
Who said you need to use a keyboard?

And still the question remains unanswered: how long is "very long"?

I want that to reach 100m or more, a distance that isn't easy to reach by walking, and if I get a commercial laser rangefinder and I put the data manually into the arduino it won't as efficient as I want, I want that to be fast and very straightforward

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Assuming you are on a flat surface and your device is 2m above ground, the difference between 100m and 200m distance is 0.57° (!)

lg, couka

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MrWilliam932:
I want that to reach 100m or more, a distance that isn't easy to reach by walking...

And yet even still the question remains unanswered: how long is "very long"?

MrWilliam932:
if I put the data manually into the arduino it won't as efficient as I want, I want that to be fast and very straightforward

With that nice big LCD screen on the back of the golf range finder, isn't there ANY way you can think of grab that data without entering it manually?

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I mean one of these

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hi i added to this post, iam looking for a large range proximity sensor for arduino. the idea is detect car proximity suficient enough to stop.
i thing 100mts should be enough.
is there such a sensor.
Thanks

mako

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mako1978:
hi i added to this post, iam looking for a large range proximity sensor for arduino. the idea is detect car proximity suficient enough to stop.
i thing 100mts should be enough.
is there such a sensor.
Thanks

mako

100 metres maximum, or 100 metres minimum?

In what environment?

Was it really necessary to necro a three year old thread?