[TriEmbed] [TAR] New TOF (time of flight) distance sensor from Sparkfun

[Randy Farmer]

Cheaper breakout with just the sensor:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12784


On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Rodney Radford ncgadgetry at gmail.com
[trianglerobotics] <trianglerobotics at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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>
> If you are on the Sparkfun mail list, you probably already got this, but
> this guy is interesting enough to warrant an announcement just in case.
>
> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/12785
>
> It is a $24.95 TOF (time of flight) distance sensor - this means that it
> actually measures the amount of time to send light (IR) to and from the
> object, so it is immune from surface reflectivity issues, and also immune
> from many of the problems with ultrasonic sensors.
>
> The only drawback that I see is the relatively short range - 0.5 meters is
> listed in the spec sheet, but if you look at the app note they are
> measuring distance out to almost 2 meters.  The actual distance is
> dependent upon ambient light and surface reflection.  Note that while the
> maximum dept allowed is dependent upon surface reflection, the actual value
> of the measurement does not.
>
> I will be ordering one of these soon (too bad I did not know about it
> before placing two orders to them just last week).
>
> Take a look at both the datasheet and the appnote.
>
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