PINGdar Bump
erco
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I was amazed that it took a while to find this nifty PINGdar thread from 2006: https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/86110/ping-dar-a-radar-style-display
Lidar Lite and SF02 sensors are all the rage now, but IMO PINGdar is also a very cool program and deserves more visibility than it currently has (nearly none, it's buried). All it takes is a servo and PING sensor to give a radar-like display using the debug terminal. Ingenious! Can be on a Boebot or any stationary BS2 board (BoE, Homework or other) since it needs to be tethered to a PC and display. I think kids would really like this as a museum exhibit, being "detected" in real time and seeing their sonar "signature" displayed on a screen. Seems like there might be an interactive game near without much additional work.
Has this been ported to the ActivityBot yet?
Jump to about 5:00 to see the display:
Lidar Lite and SF02 sensors are all the rage now, but IMO PINGdar is also a very cool program and deserves more visibility than it currently has (nearly none, it's buried). All it takes is a servo and PING sensor to give a radar-like display using the debug terminal. Ingenious! Can be on a Boebot or any stationary BS2 board (BoE, Homework or other) since it needs to be tethered to a PC and display. I think kids would really like this as a museum exhibit, being "detected" in real time and seeing their sonar "signature" displayed on a screen. Seems like there might be an interactive game near without much additional work.
Has this been ported to the ActivityBot yet?
Jump to about 5:00 to see the display:
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All the Stamps in Class "Mini Projects" are here https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/82013 (as I am sure erco found!).
I was recently playing with building a game/training system using a PING.
QX Nano FPV: