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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: 4by4 on February 18, 2009, 06:38:44 AM
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This is of academic interest only IMO, but it gives some insight into the technology.
The ACAM time-to-digital converter chips appear to have all the processing needed for a time of flight pulsed laser radar/rangefinder. Laser, detector, optics, display are external.
http://www.acam-usa.com/Content/English/tdc.html
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Very impressive. In the case of using this, how does the laser detector work?
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Holy crap. That's exactly what I need. The question is, where the heck do I get one? And how the heck do I interface with it?
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http://www.acam-usa.com/Content/English/tdc_applications/distance.html
(http://www.acam-usa.com/Bilder/Applications/Laserentfernung.GIF)
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I wish I was better with electronics. The details of that datasheet look like Chinese to me.
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It just descibes the different components needed for the laserdetector to work...
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The evaluation system probably costs several $k, and would take me weeks of full-time study with lots of phone calls to Germany.